Patent ID: 8032382

Claim:
A speech information processing apparatus comprising: a first detecting unit configured to detect a first operation of a speech processing start instruction element; a display controlling unit configured to control display of speech recognition information from a first time point where the first detecting unit detects the first operation of the speech processing start instruction element; a second detecting unit configured to detect a second operation of the speech processing start instruction element, wherein the second operation is an operation corresponding to the speech processing start instruction element, which is newly detected while continuing an operation detected as the first operation of the speech processing start instruction element, and wherein the second operation is different from the first operation; an acquiring unit configured to acquire speech information, from a second time point where the second detecting unit detects the second operation of the speech processing start instruction element, wherein the second time point is different from the first time point; and a speech recognizing unit configured to perform speech recognition processing on the speech information acquired by the acquiring unit.