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There are two types of voice recognition exists. In isolated word speech recognition system, requires the speaker, to pause between words. But, for a spontaneous speech recognition system, the speaker can speak out continuously.

However, some speech recognition systems require speaker enrollment. In this type, a user must provide some samples of his voice before making use of software for voice recognition purposes.

This process of providing voice before making use of software is usually termed as “Training”. Such systems are called as speaker-dependent voice recognition system. There are many speaker-independent systems exists, which requires no voice recording for samples before making use of the speech recognition software. It is difficult to get correct recognition of words in both the systems, as some external parameters gets added to the speech, through the microphone, such as external noise. So, as said above, it becomes difficult for an average user to get adjusted to the voice recognition software.

With the advancement in speech recognition technology, today, we see a series of software applications for travel booking and travel information, in getting information about financial status of accounts in banking sector, directory assistance in telephone system etc. These systems work basically with the concept of speaker-independent systems. This is because, it needs the system to recognize and interpret almost all types of voices.

Nuance Communications says the latest version of its speech-recognition software can achieve -- with some speakers -- 99 percent accuracy out of the box, without a "training" session to familiarize the software with how a particular person talks. It should be available in Australia in August.

Nuance has the market for dictation software pretty well sewn up outside of specialized areas, namely medicine, Meisel said. For one thing, it controls a formidable cache of patents, he said. However, voice recognition for controlling applications is drawing increasing interest. IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. are among the companies that may be working on bigger plays in this area, Meisel said. Microsoft already includes some voice-recognition capability in Windows.

It also tries to address key issues that were causing problems in the earlier versions. With Windows Vista speech recognition software, one can achieve efficient way of instructing the computer to perform various tasks. It comes with redesigned interfaces, which enable user to dictate and edit text, and correct any mistakes.