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• Audrey System

• The First Speech Recognition System Introduced By Bell Laboratories In

1952

key application
 Automated phone systems - Many companies

today use phone systems that help direct the caller

to the correct department. If you have ever been

asked something like "Say or press number 2 for

support" and you say "two," you used voice

recognition.

 Google Voice - Google voice is a service that

allows you to search and ask questions on your

computer, tablet, and phone.

 Digital assistant - Amazon Echo, Apple's Siri,

and Google Assistant use voice recognition to

interact with digital assistants that helps answer

questions.
  Car Bluetooth - For cars with Bluetooth or

Handsfree phone pairing, you can use voice

recognition to make commands, such as "call

mom" to make calls without taking your eyes off

the road.

FEATURES

 Language weighting: Improve precision by weighting specific words that are

spoken frequently (such as product names or industry jargon), beyond terms
already in the base vocabulary.
 Speaker labeling: Output a transcription that cites or tags each speaker’s
contributions to a multi-participant conversation.
 Acoustics training: Attend to the acoustical side of the business. Train the
system to adapt to an acoustic environment (like the ambient noise in a call
center) and speaker styles (like voice pitch, volume and pace).
 Profanity filtering: Use filters to identify certain words or phrases and
sanitize speech output.

ADVANTGES
People with disabilities: - People with disabilities can benefit from speech recognition
programs. For individuals that are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, speech recognition software is used to
automatically generate a closed-captioning of conversations such as discussions in conference
rooms, classroom lectures, and/or religious services

increased efficiency 
- Increases productivity, reduces costs and errors Lower
operational Costs Advances in technology will allow consumers and businesses to
implement speech recognition systems at a relatively low cost..
Controlling Digital Devices: Digital personal assistants like Alexa and Google Home
obviously require verbal communication between humans and computers. such devices
can be controlled by giving voice comaands.

DISADVANTAGES

Privacy of voice recorded data

 More devices are using VUI technology, which may present more challenges related to
data privacy. If a device has this capability, the additional data can get tracked by the
manufacturer. There have been concerns in the past that manufacturers would be
capable of listening in on private conversations.

Error and misinterpretation of words

Not all words are accurately interpreted with voice recognition. It is far easier for a
human to decode words and turn it into meaning, than it is for voice recognition software
to do so. The software’s limitation of understanding the contextual relation of words,
may cause disruption to any given task assigned to the software along the way. 

Lack of Accuracy and Misinterpretation

Voice recognition software won't always put your words on the screen completely
accurately. Programs cannot understand the context of language the way that
humans can, leading to errors that are often due to misinterpretation.

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The Disadvantages of
Voice Recognition
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Voice recognition software turns speech into text -- you talk into the system and it
transcribes what you say. This is useful for people with visual impairments and those
with physical problems that make typing on a keyboard difficult. Others may use a
system because they find talking easier than typing or simply because it's fun. Voice
recognition technology is not perfect, however, and comes with a few
disadvantages.

Lack of Accuracy and Misinterpretation

Voice recognition software won't always put your words on the screen completely
accurately. Programs cannot understand the context of language the way that
humans can, leading to errors that are often due to misinterpretation. When you talk
to people, they decode what you say and give it a meaning. Voice recognition
software can do this but may not be capable of choosing the correct meaning. For
example, it cannot always differentiate between homonyms, such as "their" and
"there." It may also have problems with slang, technical words and
 

Accents and Speech Recognition

Voice recognition systems can have problems with accents. Even though some may
learn to decode your speech over time, you have to learn to talk consistently and
clearly at all times to minimize errors. If you mumble, talk too fast or run words into
each other, the software will not always be able to cope. Programs may also have
problems recognizing speech as normal if your voice changes, say when you have a
cold, cough, sinus or throat problem.

Background Noise Interference

To get the best out of voice recognition software, you need a quiet environment.
Systems don't work so well if there is a lot of background noise. They may not be
able to differentiate between your speech, other people talking and other ambient
noise, leading to transcription mix-ups and errors

Future of Speech Recognition

Accuracy will become better and better. Dictation speech recognition will
gradually become accepted.

• Small hand-held writing tablets for computer speech recognition dictation and
data entry will be developed, as faster processors and more memory become
available.

Greater use will be made of "intelligent systems" which will attempt to guess
what the speaker intended to say. rather than what was actually said, as people
ofteN misspeak and make unintentional mistakes.

• Microphone and sound systems will be designed to adapt more quickly to

changing background noise levels, different environments, with better recognition
of extraneous material to be discarded.
Conclusion

At some point in the future, speech recognition may become speech

understanding.

The statistical models that allow computers to decide what a person just said may
someday allow them to grasp the meaning behind the words.

Although it is a huge leap in terms of computational power and software

sophistication, some researchers argue that speech recognition development
offers the most direct line from the computers of today to true artificial
intelligence

References

• http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/high-tech-gadgets/speech

recognition.htm

http://project.uet.itgo.com/speech.htm

• http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/EVE/I.D.2.d.VolceRecognition.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden Markov model

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