Which scenario is speech recognition?
Why D is the answer
Turning a recorded meeting into written text
Speech recognition converts spoken audio to text. Reading text aloud is speech synthesis.
In detail
- Speech recognition turns spoken audio into written text.
- Custom models can help with specialist terms.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
After a meeting, a recording becomes written notes. That is speech recognition, and the notes can then be summarized.
See it in different ways
flowchart LR A["Spoken question"] --> B["Speech to text"] B --> C["Model answers"] C --> D["Text to speech"] D --> E["Spoken answer"]
sequenceDiagram participant U as User participant S as Azure Speech participant M as Model U->>S: Spoken question S->>M: Text M-->>S: Text reply S-->>U: Spoken reply
flowchart LR S0["Recording"] --> S1["Speech recognition"] --> S2["Written notes"]
Key point: Audio to text is speech recognition.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Drawing an image from a written description of it
- That is image generation.
- B. Grouping customers by how much they spend each year
- That is customer segmentation.
- C. Reading a document aloud in a natural-sounding voice
- That is speech synthesis.

