A lot of my higher technology concept ideas have implemented the use of voice recognition to detect the child's voice and understand what they are saying. I felt the best way to evaluate the feasibility of this software was to research further and see if it is truly capable of what I wish it to do.
According to Wikipedia, speech recognition is described as:
According to Wikipedia, speech recognition is described as:
'the inter-disciplinary sub-field of computational linguistics which incorporates knowledge and research in the linguistics, computer science, and electrical engineering fields to develop methodologies and technologies that enables the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers and computerized devices such as those categorized as Smart Technologies and robotics. It is also known as "automatic speech recognition" (ASR), "computer speech recognition", or just "speech to text" (STT).'
Use for speech recognition is used in a variety of applications over a spectrum of fields including:
In-car systems
- Simple voice commands may be used to initiate phone calls
- select radio stations
- play music from a compatible smartphone, MP3 player or music-loaded flash drive.
- Medical documentation
speech recognition can be implemented in front-end or back-end of the medical documentation process - Therapeutic use
Prolonged use of speech recognition software in conjunction with word processors has shown benefits to short-term-memory restrengthening in brain AVM patients who have been treated with resection. Further research needs to be conducted to determine cognitive benefits for individuals whose AVMs have been treated using radiologic techniques.)
- High-performance fighter aircraft
Speech recognizers have been operated successfully in fighter aircraft, with applications including: setting radio frequencies, commanding an autopilot system, setting steer-point coordinates and weapons release parameters, and controlling flight display - Helicopters
Results have been encouraging, and voice applications have included: control of communication radios, setting of navigation systems, and control of an automated target handover system. - Training air traffic controllers
Many ATC training systems currently require a person to act as a "pseudo-pilot", engaging in a voice dialog with the trainee controller, which simulates the dialog that the controller would have to conduct with pilots in a real ATC situation.
Telephony and other domains
- ASR in the field of telephony is now commonplace and in the field of computer gaming and simulation is becoming more widespread.
- The improvement of mobile processor speeds made feasible the speech-enabled Symbian and Windows Mobile smartphones. Speech is used mostly as a part of a user interface, for creating predefined or custom speech commands.
- For language learning, speech recognition can be useful for learning a second language.
- Students who are blind (see Blindness and education) or have very low vision can benefit from using the technology to convey words and then hear the computer recite them, as well as use a computer by commanding with their voice, instead of having to look at the screen and keyboard
- Students who are physically disabled or suffer from Repetitive strain injury/other injuries to the upper extremities can be relieved from having to worry about handwriting, typing, or working with scribe on school assignments by using speech-to-text programs.
- People with disabilities can benefit from speech recognition programs. For individuals that are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, speech recognition software is used to automatically generate a closed-captioning of conversations such as discussions in conference rooms, classroom lectures, and/or religious services
- Speech recognition is also very useful for people who have difficulty using their hands, ranging from mild repetitive stress injuries to involved disabilities that preclude using conventional computer input devices.
- Speech recognition is used in deaf telephony, such as voicemail to text, relay services, and captioned telephone.
- Aerospace (e.g. space exploration, spacecraft, etc.) NASA’s Mars Polar Lander used speech recognition from technology Sensory, Inc. in the Mars Microphone on the Lander[71]
- Automatic subtitling with speech recognition[72]
- Automatic translation
- Court reporting (Realtime Speech Writing)
- Hands-free computing: Speech recognition computer user interface
- Home automation
- Interactive voice response
- Mobile telephony, including mobile email
- Multimodal interaction
- Pronunciation evaluation in computer-aided language learning applications
- Robotics
- Speech-to-text reporter (transcription of speech into text, video captioning, Court reporting )
- Telematics (e.g., vehicle Navigation Systems)
- Transcription (digital speech-to-text)
- Video games, with Tom Clancy's EndWar and Lifeline as working examples