speech understanding
nounUK /spiːtʃ ˌʌndəˈstændɪŋ/
US /spitʃ ˌʌndərˈstændɪŋ/
The ability to hear words and know what they mean.
The smart speaker uses speech understanding to know when you ask it to play a song.
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OTHER MEANINGS
2. The process by which a computer turns spoken words into text or actions.
Speech understanding lets the phone write down what you say as a message.
3. A person's ability to follow and grasp what someone is saying out loud.
After the loud concert, his speech understanding was a little fuzzy for an hour.
4. The part of language science that studies how people make sense of spoken sounds.
She studies speech understanding to learn how babies pick up words.