Speech technology

Speech technology relates to the technologies designed to duplicate and respond to the human voice. They have many uses. These include aid to the voice-disabled, the hearing-disabled, and the blind, along with communication with computers without a keyboard. They enhance game software and aid in marketing goods or services by telephone.

The subject includes several subfields:


 * Speech synthesis
 * Speech recognition
 * Speaker recognition
 * Speaker verification
 * Speech encoding
 * Multimodal interaction