Patent ID: 8195461

Claim:
A voice recognition system used for onboard equipment having a genre database that stores search target vocabularies in accordance with respective genres, the voice recognition system comprising: a microphone for converting speech sounds to an electric signal, and for outputting the electric signal as spoken data; a first voice recognition dictionary that stores words representing search target genres in the genre database; a second voice recognition dictionary that stores words not representing search target genres in the genre database; a voice recognition unit for recognizing the speech sounds by collating the spoken data delivered from the microphone with the words contained in the first voice recognition dictionary and in the second voice recognition dictionary; a controller programmed to: when a word delivered from the voice recognition unit as the recognition result indicates one of the genres stored in the first voice recognition dictionary, decide that a search is to be conducted of the target vocabulary corresponding to the recognized genre in the genre database, and when a word delivered from the voice recognition unit as the recognition result is a word obtained by collating the spoken data with the words contained in the second voice recognition dictionary, generate a message stating that the word is not a word of a search target genre as presentation information; and a presentation unit for presenting the presentation information delivered from the controller to a user.