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The Advent Of Voice Recognition Software And The Useful Features It Presents

By Ronald Wilson


You might have heard about something called voice recognition. These software products make it possible to talk to your computer by changing speech into text. These things have been in use for over a half century.

Developments in the application of voice recognition techniques have made it so computers can do amazing things. Using this evolving technology, it is possible to capture continual speech, more than one voice at a time, and decipher various speech patterns along with multi-language support.

Right now there are three ways that voice recognition software can meet your specific needs. There is command and control, text to speech, in addition to dictation.

With this type of technology, your voice acts as an input device. As you utter a command, you can sail through menus and toolbars while activating various applications. Not only that, you can also dictate your words into a microphone, which the computer can convert into text.

Text to speech features which are found in computers use voice recognition that allows the computer to read back the text you just typed. It uses synthesizers to produce sounds that are similar to human speech. It can also use filters that imitate sound variations that come from subtle differences in the place of the tongue along with the shape of lips and throat in addition to other things.

Even though this kind of technology allows a computer to recognize and digitize speech from words, analyze the words and then create speech from texts, the computer still will not get what you are actually saying. Getting a computer to understand exactly how people actually speak involves areas of artificial intelligence that is called natural language processing.

However there are continual efforts underway to develop this technology that will accomplish overcoming these obstacles. A large amount of people using this type of technology, ranging from office workers to the disabled. There is a good chance that in just a few years, using a keyboard may be a thing of the past.

While it is the truth that speech and voice recognition technology has come a very long way since the beginning, it still has not reached one hundred percent effectiveness. While the best software on the market may have a good platform, these tools still do not compensate for typing mistakes.




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