What is speech-to-text?

• A. A method of translating text into spoken language.
• B. The conversion of a spoken language audio signal to textual representation.
• C. A process for recognizing handwriting into typed text.
• D. A system that converts images to audio.

Answer: (B)

Speech-to-text is the process of transforming spoken language into written text. It takes the audio signal of someone talking and produces a textual representation that can be read, stored, or edited. The description that matches this idea is the one that states it converts a spoken language audio signal into textual representation. Other options describe different technologies: turning text into spoken words is text-to-speech; recognizing handwriting into typed text is handwriting recognition (OCR); and converting images into audio is not involved in speech-to-text.