How does speech recognition work?
Speech recognition software products like Dragon NaturallySpeaking use the human voice as the main interface between the user and the computer. While relatively simple to use, speech recognition software is a highly sophisticated technology that leverages ?language modeling? to recognize and differentiate among the millions of human utterances that make up any language. Using statistical models, speech recognition programs analyze an incoming stream of sound and interpret those sounds as commands and dictation. This process of interpretation is called speech recognition, and its success is measured by the percentage of correct interpretations. Dragon NaturallySpeaking is an example of a speaker dependent speech recognition system. Dragon creates a voice profile for each user of the system that contains information about the unique characteristics of each person”s voice along with a customized set of words, known as a vocabulary, and user specific information including software setting
