SPEECH TO TEXT SOFTWARE, OR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR) SOFTWARE, OR VOICE TO TEXT SOFTWARE, IS A COMPUTER PROGRAM THAT USES LINGUISTIC ALGORITHMS TO SORT AUDITORY SIGNALS AND TRANSFORM THAT INFORMATION INTO WORDS USING UNICODE CHARACTERS. • MORE SIMPLY, SPEECH TO TEXT SOFTWARE ‘LISTENS’ TO AUDIO AND DELIVERS AN EDITABLE, VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT.