Patent ID: 6708150
Filing Date: 2004-03-16
Classification: G01C,G10L

Abstract:
A speech recognition apparatus, comprising:a voice input device; a first storage device that stores a first recognition word indicating a pronunciation of a word to undergo speech recognition; a second storage device that stores a specific word that includes a first pronunciation different from a second pronunciation, which specific word is prepared in advance as a word that is a common part of a plurality of words to undergo speech recognition; a generating device that judges whether or not a given word contains the specific word as a part of the given word and generates a second recognition word of the given word by replacing a second pronunciation of the specific word with the first pronunciation of the specific word when it has been judge that the given word contains the specific; the second pronunciation being originally included in the first recognition word of the given word; the first pronunciation being different from the second pronunciation; and a speech recognition processing device that performs speech recognition processing by comparing audio data obtained through the voice input device and speech recognition data created in correspondence to the second recognition word of the given word.