Uses and Applications
The natural language interface and his recognition with satisfactory results, give rise to this technology to be used for different uses and applications. Some of the main uses are:
- Dictation, is the most common use for automated speech recognition (ASR) systems today. This includes medical transcriptions, legal and business dictation, and general word processing. In some cases special vocabularies are used to increase the accuracy of the system.
- Command and control, ASR systems that are designed to perform functions and actions on the system are defined as command and control systems. Utterances like "Open Netscape" and "Start a new xterm" will do just that.
- Telephony, some PBX/Voice Mail systems allow callers to speak commands instead of pressing buttons to send specific tones.
- Wearables, because inputs are limited for wearable devices, speaking is a natural possibility.
- Medical, disabilities, many people have difficulty typing due to physical limitations such as repetitive strain injuries (RSI), muscular dystrophy, and many others. For example, people with difficulty hearing could use a system connected to their telephone to convert a caller's speech to text.
- Embedded applications, some new cellular phones include C&C speech recognition that allow utterances such as "call home". This may be a major factor in the future of automatic speech recognition and Linux.
Below are named and defined some of the applications that use natural language recognition, and so have integrated utilities listed above.
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