摘要 |
Apparatus providing a speech recognition facility for a computer (not shown) is installed between a keyboard unit (2) and the computer. In the speech mode a digitised audio input from a microphone (6) is compared by a microprocessor (12) with data held in a speech parameter store (20) to determine the word or phrase spoken. The identity so determined is then used to obtain from a data store (18) a character string, previously entered from the keyboard unit (2), for transmission to the computer on an output (3'). A speech recognition facility may accordingly be provided for any computer without requiring amendment of the computer software. <IMAGE> |