Glossary of voice tech

In the field of voice technology there are lots of buzzwords. Some are self explaining, other lead to confusion regularly. This list should be a glossary.

General terms

• Dataset
• Papers (research papers)
• Phonemes
• Model
• Checkpoint
• Repository

STT terms

• Wake word
• Hotword
• Voice print
• Word error rate (WER)
• Diarization
• Barge-in

Voice assistant terms

• Conversational AI
• Natural language understanding (NLU)
• Intent
• Utterance
• Voiceonly

Machine learning

• Epoch
• Step
• Batch size
• Learning rate
• Inference
• Alignment