| You probably have heard about voice recognition | | | | in the position of the tongue, shape of the lips and |
| that allows you to "talk" to a computer, so that it | | | | length of the throat, among others. |
| can convert your speech into text. It has been | | | | Even when this technology allows a computer to |
| around for more than fifty years now. | | | | recognize human speech, digitize it into phonemes |
| Developments in voice recognition technology | | | | and words, "analyze" the words based from their |
| through the years has made it possible for a | | | | context and synthesize speech from text, the |
| computer to recognize continuous speech, several | | | | computer does not actually understand what you |
| voices and various speech patterns and even | | | | say. Understanding how human speaks would |
| different languages. | | | | refer to a field of artificial intelligence that is called |
| There are three ways that voice recognition | | | | natural language processing. |
| technology can meet your needs: command and | | | | While it is true that speech or voice recognition |
| control, dictation and text-to-speech capability. | | | | technology has y gone a long way since its |
| In this kind of technology, your voice works as | | | | conception in the 1920s, it has not yet achieved |
| the input device. By uttering a command, you can | | | | one hundred percent accuracy. Even the |
| navigate menus, toolbars and activate different | | | | best-known software available in the market has |
| applications. Likewise, you can also dictate words | | | | not provided its users a very reliable and accurate |
| through a microphone and let the computer | | | | solution to typing problems. |
| convert them into text instead of typing them | | | | However, continuous efforts to develop this |
| through the keyboard. | | | | technology are being made, and this gives hope to |
| Text-to-speech features in computers using voice | | | | a large number of people using this |
| recognition technology allow the computer to read | | | | technology-physically disabled and normal people |
| the text that you have typed. The computer use | | | | alike. Who knows, just few years from now using |
| "synthesizers" to produce sound similar to a | | | | the keyboard may just be a history in the world |
| human's speaking voice. It then uses filters to | | | | of computers. |
| imitate sound variations resulting from differences | | | | |