Speech recognition apparatus capable of discriminating between similar acoustic features of speech

摘要

A speech recognition apparatus including a memory for storing with respect to each feature specific to a particular phoneme a name of a process and a procedure of the process which is performed in order to search whether the presence of a feature specific to a certain type of speech is included in a feature vector series, and for storing a table in which the names of the processes in a performed for all the categories of speech to be recognized. The information stored in the memory is used to discriminate between two categories and provides ways for interpreting the results of the process. The recognition processes performed the discrimination is done in accordance with the information stored in the table.