Chapter 3. Speech Recognition

Have you ever tapped through several menus and options on your device until you were able to do what you wanted? Have you ever wished you could just say some words and make it work? This chapter looks at Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), the process that converts spoken words to written text. The topics covered are as follows:

• The technology of speech recognition

• Using Google speech recognition

• Developing applications with the Google speech recognition API

By the end of this chapter, you should have a good understanding of the issues involved in using speech recognition in an app and should be able to develop simple apps using the Google speech API.