What is Speech recognition?
[[File:lydklip.jpg|thumb|Sound wave]] '''Speech recognition''' (also known as '''voice recognition''') is the process of converting spoken words into [[computer]] text. The user speaks into a [[microphone]] and the computer creates a text file of the words they have spoken. Although the [[accuracy]] of these systems has improved in the 21st century, they are still far from perfect. If you only need them to recognise a few words, for example the words ''one, two, three'' etc., then [[speech]] recognition [[software]] can be very accurate. This is why this feature has started to appear on modern [[mobile phone]]s. But systems that can recognise any word spoken by any person in any language are still a few years away. You can greatly improve the accuracy of these systems by ''training'' them to recognise just one voice. This is usually done by getting the user to read a short set piece of text into the [[microphone]]. The user looks at the text which has been created and corrects any mistakes the software has made. By repeating this a number of times the computer's accuracy increases a great deal. {{tech-stub}} [[Category:Data input]]