Patent Document ID: 20140358542
Application ID: 14229265
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A candidate selection apparatus utilizing voice recognition that enables selection of a target candidate by performing voice recognition of either the target candidate or a candidate number assigned to the target candidate, spoken by a user from among target candidates and candidate numbers that are displayed in list form, the candidate selection apparatus comprising: a character string determination unit that determines whether or not target candidates to be displayed in list form are character strings representing numerals of the candidate numbers; an association unit that associates target candidates with the candidate numbers so that numerals of the target candidates coincide with the numerals of the candidate numbers when the character string determination unit determines that target candidates to be displayed in list form are character strings representing the numerals of the candidate numbers; a display control unit that displays the target candidates and the candidate numbers associated with each other by the association unit in list form in accordance with associations made between the target candidates and the candidate numbers; and a voice recognition unit that performs voice recognition of the target candidate or the candidate number spoken by the user from among the target candidates and the candidate numbers that are displayed in list form by the display control unit.