speech recognition software

noun [U] IT

Definition

› software that allows a computer to understand spoken words: The best speech recognition software applications still cannot recognize speech with 100% accuracy.

(Definition of speech recognition software noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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