Speech recognition is the technology and research field concerned with converting spoken language into text or machine-interpretable representations. It combines signal processing, computational linguistics, and machine learning and is also known as automatic speech recognition or speech-to-text.
An interdisciplinary subfield of computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enables the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. It is also known as automatic speech recognition (ASR), computer speech recognition or speech to text (STT). It incorporates knowledge and research in the linguistics, computer science, and electrical engineering fields.