Fact · Speech recognition
The 2026 draft of Jurafsky and Martin's textbook says speech is a natural interface for communicating with appliances, digital assistants and chatbots, especially on cellphones, where keyboards are less convenient.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Speech is a natural interface for communicating with appliances, or with digital assistants or chatbots, especially on cellphones, where keyboards are less convenient.”
Speech and Language Processing, Chapter 16: Automatic Speech Recognition (draft), Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Stanford University, online manuscript of the third edition, 2026, Chapter 16, opening paragraphs.
Open the original- What it measures
- The authors list this among the reasons automatic speech recognition matters, next to captioning and transcription.
- What it does not show
- A statement of design motivation. It does not measure how often people use speech on phones.