Patent ID: 7979278

Claim:
A speech recognition system comprising: a user term information extraction unit extracting automatically a user word that a user frequently uses or that is unique to the user from terms contained in data of an application for use other than speech recording when new data are stored upon use of the application; a speech recognition list management unit having a first speech recognition list of recognition candidates, wherein said speech recognition list management unit adds a new recognition candidate to the first speech recognition list according to the user word; a speech input unit, including at least one microphone, through which speech data of the user are input; a speech recognition unit, comprising a server, executing speech recognition of the speech data using the first speech recognition list; a speech file recording unit recording the input speech data as a speech file; a speech file server storing the speech file on a network, the speech file recording unit transferring the speech file to the speech file server via the network so that the speech file is stored in the speech file server, the file name of the speech file and a network address of the speech file server being recorded in the speech file recording unit; and a digest speech data generation unit that, prior to the transfer of the speech file to the speech file server by the speech file recording unit, extracts a part of the speech data recorded in the speech file and generates digest speech data of the speech file, wherein the speech file recording unit records the digest speech data in addition to the file name of the speech file and the network address of the speech file server.