voice recogniton; speech recognition (Technology designed to recognize the sounds of human speech and convert them into digital signals for processing as input by a computer. Voice recognition technology is used mainly in communications and computing. Command systems designed to recognize a few hundred words are used to eliminate the need for a mouse or keyboard in performing repetitive operations. Discrete systems, used in dictation, require the speaker to pause between words. Continuous recognition handles natural language at normal speed, but requires considerably more processing capability. Systems capable of understanding large vocabularies spoken at any speed are expected to become mainstream in the foreseeable future.)；phonetic recognition
