Its improved speech recognition, voice synthesis and gesture expression technology allows for more sophisticated communication and interaction with humans.
The unit is capable of locomotion, using visual navigation to avoid obstacles, speech recognition, emotion recognition (whether audio or gestural is not stated), and speaking.
If transcripts were already available, then these were aligned to the audio stream; otherwise, an approximate transcript was produced using speech recognition.
While completely general, the library was designed for and is being used in speech processing applications, such as speech recognition and speech synthesis.
Speech recognition specialized for disabilities and hands-free computing focus more on low-level control of the keyboard and mouse than on usual areas like dictation.
The primary meaning of the term transcription software has changed over time, with the introduction of new technologies such as natural language speech recognition.