The area of speech recognition has slowly been growing. However, there have been many major accomplishments. Microsoft has been working on a program that will work on many existing PC platforms. Their program, Whisper , attempts to synthesize many different aspects of present speech recognition technologies.
Whisper takes all factors into consideration.
The program itself combines many different aspects of computer science, as well. In doing this, it can recognize words at a much quicker pace. However, rather than have you read through all of this document, here is a definition of what the links below link to.