A type of
speech recognition which can recognise speech as it is naturally spoken rather. than. spoken. one. word. at. a. time. fullstop. This term is used to distinguish it from
isolated word recognition. It's what is used in commercial products such as
IBM's
ViaVoice and
Dragon's
Naturally Speaking; although typically systems capable of continuous speech recognition can also be used for isolated word recognition.
They are usually implemented using hidden Markov models, together with some tricks such as bigrams and use of production rules to enhance accuracy.