Written by: Stefan Dobler

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Following the introduction of mobile phones using voice commands, speech recognition is becoming standard on mobile handsets. Features such as name dialing make phones more user-friendly and can improve the safety of operating a handset in an automobile. The author briefly reviews the types of speech-recognition systems, illustrates a few typical problems of the mobile environment, discusses the efficient use of memory in mobile devices, and provides details on the technology deployed in Ericsson’s speech-recognition system for mobile devices. Finally, potential enhancements aimed at speech-controlled mobile phones of the future are mentioned.

[First published in Ericsson Review no. 03, 2000]