Speech technology

For the magazine, see Speech Technology (magazine).

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

The subject includes several subfields:

• Speech synthesis
• Speech recognition
• Speaker recognition
• Speaker verification
• Speech encoding
• Multimodal interaction

See also

• Communication aids
• Language technology
• Speech interface guideline
• Speech processing
• Speech Technology (magazine)