Speech technology relates to the technologies designed to duplicate and respond to the human voice. They have many uses, including to aid the voice-disabled, the hearing-disabled, the blind, and to communicate with computers without a keyboard, to market goods or services by telephone and to enhance game software.

The subject includes several subfields:

• Speech synthesis
  Speech synthesis
  Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware...
  
  
• Speech recognition
  Speech recognition
  Speech recognition converts spoken words to text. The term "voice recognition" is sometimes used to refer to recognition systems that must be trained to a particular speaker—as is the case for most desktop recognition software...
  
  
• Speaker recognition
  Speaker recognition
  Speaker recognition is the computing task of validating a user's claimed identity using characteristics extracted from their voices .There is a difference between speaker recognition and speech recognition . These two terms are frequently confused, as is voice recognition...
  
  
• Speaker verification
• Speech compression
  Speech compression
  Speech compression may mean different things:*Speech encoding refers to compression for transmission or storage, possibly to an unintelligible state, with decompression used prior to playback....
  
  
• Multimodal interaction
  Multimodal interaction
  Multimodal interaction provides the user with multiple modes of interfacing with a system. A multimodal interface provides several distinct tools for input and output of data.- Multimodal input :...
  
  

See also

• Speech interface guideline
  Speech interface guideline
  Speech interface guideline is a guideline with the aim for guiding decisions and criteria regarding designing interfaces operated by human voice. Speech interface system has many advantages such as consistent service and saving cost. However, for users, listening is a difficult task. It can become...
  
  
• Speech Technology (magazine)
• Speech processing
  Speech processing
  Speech processing is the study of speech signals and the processing methods of these signals.The signals are usually processed in a digital representation, so speech processing can be regarded as a special case of digital signal processing, applied to speech signal.It is also closely tied to...
  
  
• Language technology
  Language technology
  Language technology is often called human language technology or natural language processing and consists of computational linguistics and speech technology as its core but includes also many application oriented aspects of them. Language technology is closely connected to computer science and...
  
  
• Communication aids

External links

• Speech Technology Magazine online
• High speed speech transcription technology