Speech technology relates to the technologies designed to duplicate and respond to the human voice. They have many uses. These include aid to the voice-disabled, the hearing-disabled, and the blind, along with communication with computers without a keyboard. They enhance game software and aid in marketing goods or services by telephone.
The subject includes several subfields:
- Speech synthesis
- Speech recognition
- Speaker recognition
- Speaker verification
- Speech encoding
- Multimodal interaction
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