Patent ID: 8428951

Claim:
A speech recognition apparatus comprising: a control unit having a controller operably connected to one or more electronic devices, the controller being configured to display an operation control screen on a display for controlling the one or more electronic devices, wherein, when the speech recognition apparatus is in a voice input configurational condition, the one or more electronic devices are controlled by the controller through a plurality of voice inputs; a speech recognition dictionary including a plurality of comparison data for use in recognition of a voice input of the plurality of voice inputs; a speech recognition unit adapted to calculate a matching degree for a plurality of speech recognition candidates by comparing voice input data generated based on the voice input with the plurality of comparison data; and one or more addition data which are associated with one or more particular comparison data within the plurality of comparison data, wherein the one or more addition data is added to the matching degree of the particular comparison data thereby weighting the matching degree, and wherein the speech recognition unit produces the recognition result of the voice input based on the weighted matching degree for the particular comparison data, wherein, when an operation control screen already configured to a particular electronic device is displayed prior to the voice input, comparison data other than the particular comparison data corresponding to the addition data associated with the operation control screen for the electronic device are removed from the comparison data selected by the speech recognition unit as recognition candidates.