Speech perception NLP
noun phrase
Definition: The process by which listeners recognize and interpret spoken language from the acoustic speech signal, mapping incoming sound onto linguistic structure and meaning [McRoberts 2008].
Example in context: “This article provides examples to make the case that speech perception illustrates a lesson general to cognitive science: There is no firm line between perception and learning.” [Holt 2025]
Related terms: speech recognition; auditory speech processing; phoneme perception; spoken-word recognition