Background
Speech recognition engines require two types of files to recognize speech. They require an acoustic model, which is created by taking audio recordings of speech and their transcriptions (taken from a speech corpus), and 'compiling' them into a statistical representations of the sounds that make up each word (through a process called 'training'). They also require a language model or grammar file. A language model is a file containing the probabilities of sequences of words. A grammar is a much smaller file containing sets of predefined combinations of words. Language models are used for dictation applications, whereas grammars are used in desktop command and control or telephony interactive voice response (IVR) type applications.
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