Patent ID: 7076425

Claim:
A voice recognition device comprising: a voice pickup unit configured to pick up voices of a user; a memory unit configured to store a plurality of objective recognition terms; a display unit configured to display a predetermined number of objective recognition terms that are included in the plurality of objective recognition terms stored in the memory unit; a weighting unit configured to weight the objective recognition terms on the display unit with respective weighted values, each of the respective weighted values being larger than weighted values of the other objective recognition terms that are not displayed on the display unit; and a calculating unit configured to calculate respective degrees of agreement between the objective recognition terms after being weighted by the weighting unit and the user's voices being picked up by the voice pickup unit, wherein: the user's voices are recognized based on the degrees of agreement calculated by the calculating unit, the memory unit stores the plurality of objective recognition terms in a prescribed order, the display unit displays the objective recognition terms in a display area adapted to display the objective recognition terms of a predetermined number in the prescribed order, and the weighting unit operates to weight the objective recognition terms outside the display area such that each of the weighted values of the objective recognition terms outside the display area is gradually reduced from the weighted values of the objective recognition terms in the display area as a position of a respective objective recognition term outside the display area is apart from the display area.