| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Accent | Way of speaking that is characteristic of a geographic region |
| Automatic Speech Recognizer | Speech recognition software, sometimes called a speech engine, which listens to human speech and converts the spoken words to text |
| Carpal Tunnel Syndrome | Painful, inflammaorty condition that affects the carpal or wrist portion of the median nerve. Often associated with repetitive actions such as typing |
| Continous Speech Recognition | Speech recognition system that enables users to speak normally, pausing only to give commands and insert punctuation marks |
| Dictation mode | Enable users to dictate text into a computer application |
| Discrete speech | Speech recogntion system that requires the user to pause momentarily between each word |
| Dragon | Company, also know as Dragon Systems, that released the first continuous speech recognition product in 1997 with over 30,000 words in its speech dictionary |
| Jargon | Unique vocabulary includes technical terms, slang, and phrases not used by the general public. Also call shop talk |
| Language bar | Speech recogntion or voice control center providing easy access to speech and handwriting recogntion tools in Microsoft Office |
| Natural Language Technology | Commands that make speaking to a speech recognition system almost as natural as talking to a person |
| Naturally Speaking | First accurate, continuous speech recognition product with over 30,000 words in its speech dictionary |
| New Line command | Ends the current line of text and moves the insertion point to the next line |
| New Paragraph Command | Ends a paragraph and moves the insertion point to the next line. |
| Phrase | Groups of words that express an idea |
| Profile | Special file that collects data about a user's speech pattern |
| Pronunciation | Sound of words when they are spoken |
| Repetitive strain injury | Condition, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, that causes painful, inflammation tha affects parts of the body involved in constantly repeated actions such as typing |
| Scratch That | Voice command that erases the last word or phrase dictated |
| Speech dictionary | Contains words recognized by CSR software. |
| Speech vocabulary | List of words a speech recognition program recognizes. Only words in the vocabulary can be displayed |
| Train | Process in which a user reads a sample script aloud, enabling the speech recognition system to record an individual's unique speech patterns, increasing the accuracy of the conversation from spoken words to the text |
| USB | Acronym for the Universal Serial Bus, an interface connection to a personal computer |
| Voice Command mode | Enable users to give verbal commands to control menus and format documents in an Microsoft Office application |
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