Problem to be solved: to transmit a speech data of the utterance issued by a user to a speech recognition engine and to operate an associated device in response to an operation command generated based on the result of the speech recognition processing by the speech recognition engine Problem to be solved: to provide a technique for enhancing usability while suppressing an excessive increase in communication load and processing load.A voice operation device isA voice acquisition section which acquires the voice data of the utterance issued by the user andIf the audio data newly acquired by the speech acquisition part is voice data without activation word, thenA related word detection section which detects the operation related word related to the related equipment operated in response to the previous operation command, and detects it from the start word free voice data newly acquiredIf the related word detecting section detects an operating related word from the start word free speech dataA voice data transmitter which transmits voice data without start word to a speech recognition engine and.Diagram
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