K. J. Somaiya

The concept of speech recognition technology is one of the fastest growing engineering technologies.Speech recognition technology is a translation of spoken words into text and then the text is converted into speech.Some fields that include speech recognition technology are physiology, psychology, linguistics, computer science, and signal processing. The main aim of the speech recognition technology is to allow natural language communication between man and machine. This paper narrates the development of automatic speech recognition, its basic principle, applications, methodology etc.