This category tracks significant software/hardware advances, companies and sites in the area of speech processing, recognition and voice control for computers.
Speech recognition provides the ability for computers, cars, domestic utilities, etc to recognize what words a user is saying. For example a car may be able to recognize a driver saying “cd” to turn on the CD player, or “wipers” to turn on windscreen wipers. A word processor on a PC may be able to recognize what is said to and automatically type it into a document
Voice recognition is usually just used as another term for Speech Recognition. However occasionally it is used to mean a computer/device recognizing someone’s unique voice rather than what they are actually saying.
This category does not, therefore, take "speech recognition" to be synonymous with "voice recognition."
Technically "voice recognition" to the industry means speaker verification and identification, i.e., who is speaking - is it Alex or Jane?. Speech recognition is the identification of content - what did Alex say?
This category does not, therefore, take "speech recognition" to be synonymous with "voice recognition." Please make sure your site uses these terms properly before submitting your site.
Dictation equipment should go to Shopping/Office_Products/Equipment/.
Applying speech recognition technology to the task of transcribing medical records into computer processable format for the medical profession.
Sites offering only manual (i.e. no computer speech recognition) medical transcription services should be listed in /Health/Professions/Medical Transcription.
Long distance phone services products which use Internet as a part of the carrier path should submit to Computers/Internet/Telephony.
VOIP services should be submitted to Business/Telecommunications/Services/VoIP
Speech dictation equipment which is "digital" but is primarily used to digitally record and playback voice for stenographic or transcription purposes is better placed in Shopping/Office_Products/Equipment or Business/Business_Services/Office_Services/General_Transcription_and_Word_Processing/.
If your site is fundamentally a speech product used in conjunction with the telephone/wireless, please submit to Computers/Speech_Technology/Telephony.
Chat services and long distance telephone services go to Computers/Internet/Telephony.