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| Accent | Way of speaking that is characteristic of a geographic region |
| Carpal Tunnel Syndrome | Painful, inflammatory condition that affects the carpal or wrist portion of the median nerve. |
| Dictation Mode | Enables users to dictate text into a computer application. |
| Discrete Speech | Speech recognition system that requires the user to pause momentarily between each word. |
| Dragon | Company that released the first continuous speech recognition product. |
| Jargon | Unique vocabulary includes technical terms, slang and phrases not used by the general public. |
| Lernout & Hauspie | Early leader in the development of speech recognition and translation software. |
| New Line Command | Ends the current line of text and moves the insertion point to the next line. |
| Phrase | Group of words that express an idea. |
| Profile | Special file that collects data about a user's speech patterns. |
| Pronunciation | Sound of words when they are spoken. |
| Speech Balloon | Display messages about the current status of the speech recognition software and warns users if the current speech is too loud or too soft for processing. |
| Train | Processing which a user reads a sample script aloud. |
| Via Voice | Continous voice dictation software created by IBM. |
| Voice Xpress | Speech recognition product created by Lernout & Hauspie. |
| Speech Dictionary | Contains words recognized by SCR software. |
| Speech vocabulary | List of words a speech recognition program recognizes. |
| Repetitive Strain Injury | Condition, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, that causes painful, inflammation that 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. |
| Acoustic Model | Set of mathematical formulas that analyzes human voice patterns and evaluates the probability of spoken words matching words in the speech recognition vocabulary. |
| Acoustic Model | A set of mathematical formulas that analyzes human voice patterns and evaluates the probability of spoken words matching words in the speech recognition vocabulary. |
| Automatic Speech Recognizer(ASR) | Speech recognition software, sometimes called a speech engine, which listens to human speech and converts the spoken words to text. |
| Continuous Speech Recognition(CSR) | Speech recogniton system that enables users to speak normally, pausing only to give commands and insert punctuation marks. |
| Natural Language Technology (NLT) | Commands taht 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 dicitonary. |
| New Paragraph Command | Ends a paragraph and moves the insertion point to the next line. Generally, there is more white space between paragraphs than between lines within a paragraph. |
| Say What You See | Voice-activated technology that enables useers to access any function or command visible in a dialog box, menu bar, toolbar, or task pane. |
| USB | Acronym for the Universal Serial Bus, an interface connection to a personal computer. USB speech recognition headsets and microphones bypass the sound card and input speech more directly and with less disortion into a computer processor. |
| XP/2003 | Microsoft's speech recognition product that is built into MS Office XP or 2003. |
