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Speech Recognition

Converting spoken audio into written text.

Definition

Converting spoken audio into written text. Also called speech-to-text or ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition). OpenAI's Whisper is a leading open model. Quality has improved to near-human levels for many languages. Powers voice assistants, transcription services, and accessibility tools.

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Text-to-Speech

AI systems that convert written text into natural-sounding spoken audio.

Whisper

OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model.

NLP

Natural Language Processing.

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