SPEECH RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW AND PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION APPROACH

There are constant and on-going research and innovations to enhance speech processes for ease of communication for all, but most especially those with disabilities. With recent technology advancements, voice recognition has gained a massive acceptance particularly, when it comes to making communications with machines more natural and seamless. Voice technologies is increasingly being applied in many electronic devices most especially phones, personal computers, and web browsers. This is achieved mainly using a Speech Recognition System (SRS). In this write-up, some of the models, approaches, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), performance metrics used in SRS are reviewed. Thereafter, a sample implementation of one of the common APIs, JavaScript Web Speech API, was presented; noting particularly the simplicity with which speech recognition using APIs we can achieved, with just a basic knowledge of programming language.