Voice Recognition

Voice Recognition (or Speech Recognition) converts the spoken words to text.

Voice Recognition may also be used to refer to recognition systems that have been trained to a particular speaker, this is the case for most desktop (computer) recognition software, once the speaker has been recognised, then it is simply a task of translating the spoken words of that particular person.

Speech recognition is a much broader classification and refers to technology that can recognise speech without being targeted at certain speaker.

Speech recognition applications include voice user interfaces such as voice dialing, call routing, domestic appliance control, search, simple data entry, preparation of documents, speech-to-text processing.