Capability of Azure Speech that verifies or identifies a speaker based on their voice. It is a Limited Access feature and differs from speech recognition, which transcribes the words spoken.
Also called voice biometrics.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Speaker recognition in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Capability
Something that a person, organisation or system is able to do.
- Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
Foundry Tool for spoken language, able to transcribe audio into text, synthesise voice from text, translate what is said and run live voice conversations.
- Limited Access
Under this Microsoft policy, sensitive AI features such as custom neural voice or Face identification and verification can only be used after registering and being approved as a managed customer with an approved use case.
- Speech recognition
Turning spoken audio into text, for example call transcripts or captions.