Challenges and issues in adopting speech recognition

Abstract

The area of automatic speech recognition is being discussed from past few decades, and significant advancement is being observed periodically on the automatic speech recognition (ASR) and language spoken systems. However, there are many technological hurdles yet to reach flexible solutions that satisfy the user. This is because of many factors such as environmental noise, paucity of robustness to speech variations (foreign accents, sociolinguistics, gender, and speaking rate), spontaneous, or freestyle speech. To realize the ubiquitous adoption of speech technology, there is need to bridge the space between what speech recognition technologies can convey and what human need from it. To make it up, technology must deliver robust and high-recognition accuracy near to man-like performance so it demands to focus on the challenges in speech technology.