“Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he” (Publilius Syrus). Verbal communication, allows us to reveal our feelings, connect with others, and gain insight. Speech recognition is the new fad. This paper evokes: the positives and negatives of speech recognition, and defines speech recognition and speech synthesis.
A speech recognition, or voice recognition system, uses a microphone or telephone as an input device, then converts a person’s speech into digital signals by comparing the electrical patterns produced by the speaker’s voice with a set of produced patterns stored in the computer. A person who’s going to use speech recognition software usually must first go through an enrollment process. “This involves the person dictating text that is already known to the software for ten minutes to an hour. From this sampling, the software creates a table of vocal references, which are the ways in which the speaker’s pronunciation of phonemes varies from models of speech based in a sampling of hundreds to thousands of people. Phonemes are the smallest sound units that combine into word. After enrollment, the speaker dictates the text he wants the software to copy into a microphone. The quality of the microphone and the computer’s processing power are the most important hardware factors in speech recognition. The speaker can use continuous speech, which is normal speech without pauses between words” (Williams & Sawyer 279).
Signal processing then occurs. It causes the sound wave to be transformed into a sequence of codes that represent speech sounds. The software then has three processes. They are: Phonetic Models, Dictionary, and then Grammar. It identifies the phonetics, then it defines the phonetic pronunciation of th...
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... a computer all day invariably distracts people nearby who are trying to concentrate on their own work. I also dislike the fact that others could eavesdrop on everything I say. Speech recognition is faster than typing and/or writing. The only flaw is that the dictator also has to edit the text. The system has though become better at understanding the user and using correct grammar.
In conclusion, voice recognition has several benefits and has some flaws. I foresee that this technology will be modified, and that it will be used frequently by everyone. As Publilius Syrus said, speaking shows who we really are, and voice recognition will help amplify who we are and how we truly feel.
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Automatic speech recognition is the most successful and accurate of these applications. It is currently making a use of a technique called “shadowing” or sometimes called “voicewriting.” Rather than have the speaker’s speech directly transcribed by the system, a hearing person whose speech is well-trained to an ASR system repeats the words being spoken.
In conclusion, the main benefit of voice recognition is the extra added level of security that it provides its consumers. This technology is very secure but most of all software programs have its problems as it grows. In time I am sure it will become one of the most successful software applications in the large expanding field of electronic documentation and health records.
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The target audience for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association includes audiologist, speech-language pathologists, speech, language, and hearing scientists, students and general public. To attend all this different community, the website has specific information divided by sections, and according to the specific audience; also, the webpage is easy to navigate and has a variety of articles and characteristics mentioned by Hargis, Hernandez, Hughes & Ramaker “accuracy, clarity, completeness, concreteness, organization and visual effectiveness in order to make the communication accessible” (Hargis, Hernandez, Hughes & Ramaker, 1997, p.2).
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