"Voice recognition" sounds more reminiscent of speaker identification than speech recognition to me. Although I don't work on that myself, my day job is in a related field, and even IBM's "speech to text" is a term I never hear being used (unlike for instance "text to speech"). People around me either say "speech recognition" or "ASR" (for automatic speech recognition).
I'd be interested to learn, though, if / where alternative terms are in more wide-spread use.
I agree. I find the use of the term odd and it is not commonly used in an academic context; however, I think I recall having seen it being used informally in the context of voice commands (i.e., controlling a PC or appliance) or, more generally, voice user interfaces.
I'd be interested to learn, though, if / where alternative terms are in more wide-spread use.