Nowadays, Speech recognition systems (SRS) and voice user interfaces are an integrated part of many equipment and instruments with a diverse range of applications such as personal cell phones, automobiles and military aircrafts. Despite the rapid development of speech recognition systems, there still exist challenges regarding the accuracy and speed of these systems. Isolated word recognition (IWR) is a major sub kashida; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-KASHIDA: 0%; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: ltr" dir=ltr Keyword : Isolated word Recognition, consonant, vector quantization, hardware implementation