Speech recognition (also known as automatic speech recognition or computer 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. Recognizing the speaker can simplify the task of translating speech.Speech recognition is a broader solution which refers to technology that can recognize speech without being targeted at single speaker-such as a call system that can recognize arbitrary voices. This book is your ultimate resource for Speech Recognition. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Speech Recognition right away, covering: Speech recognition, Acoustic Model, AOLbyPhone, Apptek, Articulatory speech recognition, AT&T FSM Library, Audio mining, Audio-visual speech recognition, Automated Lip Reading, Cache language model, CMU Sphinx, Computerized Speech Lab, Direct Voice Input, Fluency Voice Technology, Haskins Laboratories, HTK (software), HTK Ltd, IBM Shoebox, JSGF, Julius (software), Keyword spotting, Kinect, LENA Foundation, Lexical Markup Framework, List of speech recognition software, Logogen model, LumenVox, MacSpeech Dictate, MacSpeech Scribe, Microsoft Voice Command, Modular Audio Recognition Framework, Monowave Corp., Motor theory of speech perception, N-gram, Natural language processing, Nokia 5230, Nokia 5250, Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia C5-00, Nokia C5-03, Nokia E75, Non-native speech database, NooJ, Nortel Speech Server, Pattern playback, Phonetic search technology, Plum Voice, Proteus Conversational Interface, Quack.com, QuickFuse, Real time factor, Realtime transcription, ROSIDS, RWTH ASR, RWTH FSA Toolkit, Sautrela, Silent speech interface, Speaker diarisation, Spectral modeling synthesis, Speech analytics, Speech Application Language Tags, Speech corpus, Speech processing, Transcription (software), Speech recognition in Linux, Speech repetition, Speech verification, SpeechCycle, SpeechMagic, SpeechWeb, SpeechWorks, Spoken dialog system, Stenomask, Subvocal recognition, Telephonetics, Telesoft Technologies, Text simplification, Time-inhomogeneous hidden Bernoulli model, TIMIT, Trigram, Vocapia Research, Voice activity detection, Voice command device, Voice Finger, Voice Navigator, Voice Tag, VoiceBox Technologies, VoxForge, VoxSigma, Windows Speech Recognition, Word error rate. This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Speech Recognition. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Speech Recognition with the objectivity of experienced professionals.