direct recognition of the spoken word by the computer. Voice recognition includes the following steps: converting the analogue signal into its digital equivalent, compressing the relevant data for subsequent processing, determining the boundaries of a word, detecting patterns within the word, pattern classification and association of pattern sequences with words in the vocabulary
Use of these multimedia services by business and residential users should be encouraged, as should the integration of new service elements such as automatic translation, speech recognition, graphical user interfaces, intelligent agents and tools for user interaction and personalization.
