This Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition

Re:This Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition by kleiba on Monday February 09, 2015 @03:47PM (#9023595)

"Voice recognition" sounds more reminiscent of speaker identification than speech recognition to me. Although I don't work on that myself, my day job is in a related field, and even IBM's "speech to text" is a term I never hear being used (unlike for instance "text to speech"). People around me either say "speech recognition" or "ASR" (for automatic speech recognition).

I'd be interested to learn, though, if / where alternative terms are in more wide-spread use.

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Re:This Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition by woodson on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @12:48AM (#9025588)

I agree. I find the use of the term odd and it is not commonly used in an academic context; however, I think I recall having seen it being used informally in the context of voice commands (i.e., controlling a PC or appliance) or, more generally, voice user interfaces.

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