7. The splicing device of claim 1 , wherein the splicing apparatus has a shrinking oven, by means of which a shrink sleeve can be shrunk onto a splice point of the optical fibers connected in the splicing apparatus, and in which the speech recognition unit is designed to control a shrinking process in the shrinking oven as a function of the determined spoken command.
1. A splicing device for optical fibers, comprising: a programmable splicing apparatus which can be controlled by means of at least one program parameter, for connecting optical fibers; and a speech recognition unit which is designed to detect spoken text, to determine a spoken command from the detected spoken text and to adjust the at least one program parameter of the splicing apparatus and/or to control processes of the splicing apparatus as a function of the determined spoken command.