Speech recognition is the process by which human oral language is recognized, and subsequently processed through a computer, or, more specifically, through a special speech recognition system. Speech recognition systems are used for automated voice applications in the context of telephone applications (such as automatic call centers) for dictation systems, which allow the dictation of speeches to the computer, for control systems of the navigation system satellite, or for a phone in a car via voice commands.
Building a speech recognizer
Getting ready
We need a database of speech files to build our speech recognizer. We will use the database available at https://code.google.com/archive/p/hmm-speech-recognition/downloads. This...