Patent ID: 8060368

Claim:
A speech recognition apparatus comprising: an external information acquiring section configured to acquire, from an externally connected device connected to the speech recognition apparatus, a device type of the externally connected device, and for acquiring data recorded in said externally connected device; a vocabulary extracting analyzing section configured to extract a vocabulary item as an extracted vocabulary item form the data acquired by the external information acquiring section, and to produce analysis data by providing the extracted vocabulary item with pronunciation obtained through analysis of said extracted vocabulary item; a dictionary generating section for configured to generate speech recognition dictionaries according to device types of externally connected devices by storing the analysis data produced by the vocabulary extracting analyzing section into a speech recognition dictionary corresponding to the device type acquired by the external information acquiring section; and a speech recognition section configured to carry out speech recognition of input speech by referring to a speech recognition dictionary out of the speech recognition dictionaries generated by the dictionary generating section, and to output a result of said speech recognition, where the speech recognition dictionary to be used for said speech recognition corresponds to the device type acquired by the external information acquiring section.