Patent Document ID: 9239829
Application ID: 13702330

Base Claim:
1. A speech recognition device, comprising: a microphone that converts an input speech into an electric signal; a speech recognizer to perform speech recognition for said electric signal with a speech recognition engine corresponding to a predetermined language that is a language that is set in advance as a recognition subject by referring to recognition subject word information including writing information and reading information of each recognition subject word included in a recognition subject vocabulary registered in a speech recognition dictionary; a first memory to store a reading information generation data base in which a reading information generation rule that indicates a correspondence between writing information of a word in one language among a plurality of languages and reading information thereof in another language is registered; a reading information generator to generate the reading information of the word in the another language from the writing information in the one language based on the reading information generation rule of the reading information generation data base; and a controller to perform control such that, when a word in a different language that is different from the predetermined language is included in the recognition subject vocabulary, the reading information generator generates the reading information in the predetermined language from the writing information in the different language, and that the speech recognizer performs speech recognition that makes reference to the recognition subject word information of the corresponding word, including the generated reading information in the predetermined language.

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Claim 2:
2. The speech recognition device according to claim 1 , further comprising: a second memory to store a reading information conversion data base in which a reading information conversion rule indicating a correspondence of reading information of a word among a plurality of languages is registered; and a reading information converter to convert the reading information of the word among the languages based on the reading information conversion rule of the reading information conversion data base, wherein the controller performs control such that, when a word in the different language is included in the recognition subject vocabulary, the reading information converter converts the reading information of the corresponding word in the different language into the reading information thereof in the predetermined language, and that the speech recognizer performs speech recognition that makes reference to the recognition subject word information including the converted reading information in the predetermined language.