speech recognition
noun
Computers.
the computerized analysis of spoken words in order to identify the speaker, as in security systems, or to respond to voiced commands: the analysis is performed by finding patterns in the spectrum of the incoming sound and comparing them with stored patterns of elements of sound, as phones, or of complete words.
Also called
voice recognition.
Compare
phone2.
Origin of speech recognition
First recorded in 1950–55
Words nearby speech recognition
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British Dictionary definitions for speech recognition
speech recognition
noun
the understanding of continuous speech by a computer