Disadvantages/Advantages

     Speech Recognition is very easy to use. You can even use it while doing something else. Also, in cars, speech recognition is a big advantage because you can keep both hands on the steering wheel and at the same time, you can give the car a command. Companies that use phones with speech recognition also have a big advantage. This is because the person who is calling does not have to wait for a human to be done with other callers and then pick up. This is also good for the company that you are calling because they won't have to hire a multitude of staff members. Also, disabled people are at an advantage with speech recognition because they can talk instead of typing if their arms or hands have been damaged or cut off. Some advantages are also present for an average person. If someone's wrist, fingers, or arms are tired or hurting, then they can use speech recognition to speak commands instead of tiring themselves even more. Those are only some of the current advantages to speech recognition.

     Some current disadvantages of speech recognition are that it can only type up to 50 words per minute and it might not be completely accurate all the time and might receive the wrong words. Another current advantage to speech recognition is that it is 95% accurate, but this is also a disadvantage because the 5% inaccuracy might make a huge difference. An example is if someone dictates a long sentence to a computer with speech recognition very fast, then it might alter the sentence and change it into something else. Also, the inaccuracy might cause two words that you say to form into one word. Also, when you are talking, extra noise might be heard by the microphone and the program might not completely hear what you said or it might add the sound in the background, which could be coming from many sources such as other people doing things like talking or working inside the area in which you are in. Although this is a big disadvantage right now, it might change in the future, just like another problem, which is that it needs a large amount of computer power and memory. Another current problem to speech recognition is homonyms, which are words that sound alike, but are different, like heir and air.