Patent ID: 8145487

Claim:
A voice recognition apparatus comprising: a voice recognition means that recognizes voice collected by a microphone; a grouping determination means that determines whether to group a phone number included in voice recognized by the voice recognition means into an area code, a city code, and a subscriber number based on a content of the recognized voice; and a display control means that, when the grouping determination means determines that the phone number is to be grouped, displays in a display part the phone number after grouping into an area code, a city code, and a subscriber number, wherein the grouping determination means determines whether to group a phone number into an area code, a city code, and a subscriber number, based on whether long sounds for separating the phone number into plural groups are included in the phone number that is included in voice recognized by the voice recognition means, a grouping within the phone number being framed at a position of the long sounds of the recognized voice.