Speech Recognition Vocab.

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New Paragraph command

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Ends a paragraph and moves the insertion point to the next line. Generally, there is more white spaces between paragraphs than between lines within a paragraph.

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Phrase

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Group of words that express an idea.

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Profile

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Special file that collects data about a user’s speech patterns. A user profile enables the speech recognition system to store speech patterns and vocabulary for individual speakers

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Pronunciation

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Sound of words when they are spoken.

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Repetitive strain injury (RSI)

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condition ,such as Carpal Tunnel syndrome, that causes painful, inflammation that affects parts of the body involved in constantly repeated actions such as typing.

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Say what you see

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Voice activated technology that enables users to access any function or command visible in a dialog box, menu bar, toolbox, menu bar, toolbar, or task pane

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Scratch that

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Voice command that erases the last word or phrase dictated.

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Speech balloon

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display messages about the contains the current status of the speech recognition software and warns users if the current speech is too loud or too soft for processing

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Speech dictionary

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contains words recognized by CSR software. Speech dictionaries containing over 300000 words are now common

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Speech vocab

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list of words a speech recognition programs recognizes. Only words in the vocab can be displayed

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Train-

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Process in which a user reads a sample script aloud, enabling the speech recognition system to record an individual’s unique speech patterns, increasing the accuracy of the conversation from spoken words to the text.

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USB

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Acronym for the Universal Serial Bus, and interface connection to a personal computer. USB speech recognition headsets and microphones bypass the sound card and input speech more directly and with less distortion into s computer processor

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Via Voice

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Continuous voice dictation software created by IBM

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Voice Command mode

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Enables users to give verbal commands to control menus and format docments in any Microsoft Office application.

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Voice Xpress

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Speech recognition product crated by Lernout & Hauspie. It pioneered many Natural Language Technology or NLT commands

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Accent

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Way of speaking that is characteristic of a geographic region

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Acoustic Model

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Set of mathematical formulas that analyzes human voice patterns and evaluates the probability of spoken words matching words in the speech and converts the spoken words to text.

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Automatic Speech Recognizer (ASR)-

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Speech recognition software, sometimes called a speech engine, which listens to human speech and converts the spoken words to text.

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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

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Painful, inflammatory condition that affects the carpal or wrist portion of the median nerve. Often associated with repetitive actions such as typing. Can be caused by physical trauma or hereditary conditions that inflame tendons around the nerve, disrupting hand function and resulting in numbness and pain.

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Continuous Speech Recognition (CSR)-

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Speech recognition system that enables users to speak normally, pausing only to give commands and insert punctuation marks.