New standards have opened up different avenues for recent applications and the development of more synergistic services. This will be a common standard for making internet content and information accessible via voice and phone. The rapid growth of the wireless market has had its own effect on the speech recognition industry. Wireless carriers and manufacturers always seek to provide new enhanced services and capabilities in order to increase users and usage. The use of the wireless phone as an internet access tool has become more and more prevalent.
Users find it more convenient to access internet and intranet through their mobile phones.
Speech recognition technology will follow the growth of users with internet access because internet connections and searches will be easier and faster using spoken words rather than tiny keypads. There are numerous cell phone users that believe that speech recognition is not just an enhancement, but a requirement. The embedded systems are developed basically for simple applications that are related to a specific device. However, network-based systems offer more capabilities, services and flexibility to the developers. An embedded system has to be very small and inexpensive, so it does not have a lot of processing power or a very large library of sounds.