Speech technology is increasing in importance as a means for improving human-computer interfaces. Speech interfaces are being deployed in desktop environments and applications, in telephony call centers and in small personal computing devices.

Applications

• Automatic translation
• Automotive speech recognition
• Telematics
• Hands-free computing: voice command recognition computer user interface
• Interactive voice response (IVR)
• Mobile telephony
• Multimodal interaction
• Robotics
• Transcription (digital speech-to-text)
• Speech-to-text (transcription of speech into mobile text messages