Definition of speech recognition in English:

speech recognition


mass noun
  • The process of enabling a computer to identify and respond to the sounds produced in human speech.

    as modifier ‘speech recognition technologies’
    • ‘The use of computerized speech recognition in medicine was first described in radiology in 1981.’
    • ‘Certain car companies are currently developing navigation systems based on speech recognition using satellites and map databases.’
    • ‘Another concurrent research stream deals with the area of speech recognition.’