Talk:Speech Recognition

This article was started in July, 2008, as part of the Eduzendium Project. We will complete the article by August 14, 2008.

Consistency of terms

Right now, we have articles dealing with "spoken language" rather than "speech", at least definitions of musical-quality and telephone-quality voice, etc. Shall we try to get some consistency before too much is embedded?

I wonder if this would better be titled "voice recognition", both to be consistent with VoIP, and also for using individual voice for biometric identification rather than communications? Howard C. Berkowitz 15:17, 25 July 2008 (CDT)

This subject is a new area for me. In the research that I have done so far, the professionals divide it up as "speech recognition" for what I am talking about, and "speaker recognition" for biometric identification. No expert appears to use "voice recognition", though that is the term that I was originally going to use. Perhaps it is a Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus sort of divide.

Just to add to the confusion, AI people talk about natural language processing, which appears to be the equivalent of what I am calling "computer speech technology"; that is, speech recognition plus responding to the recognized speech; and also including speech synthesis.

As for "speech" versus "spoken language", I cannot thing of a distinction between the two, so I would prefer the shorter term. I do see a distinction between speech and voice, where I would consider voice to be a broader term encompassing all the sounds that a human could generate--Donna Summer singing "I Feel Love" is voice, but not really speech. Samuel C. Smith 14:37, 26 July 2008 (CDT)