| A | B |
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| Accent | Way of speaking that is characteristic of a geographic location. |
| Carpal tunnel syndrome | Painful condition that affects the wrist. |
| Continuous Speech | Enables users to speak normally, pausing only to give commands. |
| Discrete Speech | Requires the user to pause momentarily between each word. |
| Dragon | First continuous speech recognition program. |
| Voice Profile | Special file that collects data about a user's speech pattern. |
| Pronunciation | Sound of words when they are spoken. |
| Train | Process in which a user reads a sample script aloud, increasing the accuracy. |
| Neural Net | Computer learns to recognize your voice. |
| Speech Engines | Takes the sounds of your voice and match it with words. |
| Sound card or chip | Along with the speech engine process your speech. |
| Enrollment | where you speak a sample list of individual words or sentences into the microphone |
