(1) (
Automatic
Speech
Recognition) Using voice recognition to replace keypad entry for telephone voice menus. Typically used to speak the digits 0 through 9 insted of keying them, ASR systems may be able to recognize a limited vocabulary. See
voice recognition and
AVSR.
(2) (
Automated
System
Recovery) A complete operating system restore function in Windows that was introduced in XP. ASR restores only the OS and not the data, which have to be backed up and restored separately.