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ASR — Automatic Speech Recognition

Fact

A technology for turning spoken sound into text or basic speech sounds.

In Plain Words

ASR is the drive-thru worker with one tired headset. Through wind and kid noise, it still hears “no pickles.”

It runs voice typing, live captions, and support call transcripts. One miss can push the next step off track.

Related Concepts

STT
STT is the most common output of ASR.

CTC
CTC often aligns flowing speech with text labels.

NLP
ASR turns sound into text, then NLP tries to understand it.

Voice-to-voice-ai
ASR is the ears of a voice chat system.