Introduction
Speech recognition is a computer software that operates computers to distinguish speech and translate it into text. The term recognition refers to the software that recognize or identify the sounds of the speaker rather than the exact words the speaker is saying. It provides people with synchronized captions on recorded videos, television shows and movies. Speech recognition can be found anywhere and many people today are familiar with it. It can be found in Google Chrome, Microsoft, Amazon, computers, laptops, cars or Dragon Drive, at the workplace and especially on phones such as Android or Apple. Google’s Android was the first phone company to release the speech recognition software on their phones. A few years after, Apple released the same software with their devices called Siri, which became popular with many phone users. Because of the provisions that speech recognition has brought, it enabled further advanced society in carrying more data on their phones and in machine learning.
Background and Current Use
Speech recognition systems were invented by Lenny Baum in the 1970s. “It (speech recognition) is one of the fastest …show more content…
In order to keep it ethical, software should be available for everyone and should not discriminate against any one person. There are not many potential legal or ethical issues with speech recognition. Without this software, there were plenty of issues that discriminated against people that were disabled or became disabled that could not make use of keyboards or a mouse. In the earlier days, when speech recognition was not known to the vast majority of computer users, people never had the chance to use computers or phones because they were incapable to do so with their hands. With the creation of this software, those same people are now able to use computers however much they like because they are able to voice their commands onto
Speech recognition is a computer software that operates computers to distinguish speech and translate it into text. The term recognition refers to the software that recognize or identify the sounds of the speaker rather than the exact words the speaker is saying. It provides people with synchronized captions on recorded videos, television shows and movies. Speech recognition can be found anywhere and many people today are familiar with it. It can be found in Google Chrome, Microsoft, Amazon, computers, laptops, cars or Dragon Drive, at the workplace and especially on phones such as Android or Apple. Google’s Android was the first phone company to release the speech recognition software on their phones. A few years after, Apple released the same software with their devices called Siri, which became popular with many phone users. Because of the provisions that speech recognition has brought, it enabled further advanced society in carrying more data on their phones and in machine learning.
Background and Current Use
Speech recognition systems were invented by Lenny Baum in the 1970s. “It (speech recognition) is one of the fastest …show more content…
In order to keep it ethical, software should be available for everyone and should not discriminate against any one person. There are not many potential legal or ethical issues with speech recognition. Without this software, there were plenty of issues that discriminated against people that were disabled or became disabled that could not make use of keyboards or a mouse. In the earlier days, when speech recognition was not known to the vast majority of computer users, people never had the chance to use computers or phones because they were incapable to do so with their hands. With the creation of this software, those same people are now able to use computers however much they like because they are able to voice their commands onto