Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Ryo Iwamiya

Tadashi Suzuki

Reiko Okada

Yusuke Seto

Information processorincludes display unitfor displaying an interface screen having function execution key unitindicating a prescribed function for each function type, and interface screen change key unitfor switching each function type; interface screen control unitfor controlling display switching of the screen on the display unitin response to an input operation signal; interface screen operation history recording unitfor recording, as continuous operation information, operation time and operation contents of the function execution key unitor interface screen change key unitin response to the input operation signal; likelihood value providing unitfor calculating and adding, to each function the function execution key unitindicates, a likelihood value indicating a degree of a user desire from the continuous operation information recorded; priority recognition word setting unitfor outputting word information corresponding to the function whose likelihood value is not less than a prescribed value; voice recognition unitfor recognizing input voice by referring to the word information; and function executing unitfor executing the function of the function execution key unitoperated via interface screen operating unitor the function corresponding to the word passing through the voice recognition by the voice recognition unit

Information processor

A voice recognition apparatusincludes a voice recognition meansfor performing voice recognition, and a control means for controlling receipt of a voice input to the voice recognition means, and for performing recognition according to a result of the voice recognition acquired by the voice recognition means. In this voice recognition apparatus, the control means controls the receipt of a voice according to a timeout time which defines the end of the receipt of a voice. The voice recognition apparatus further includes an environmental condition detecting meansfor detecting an environmental condition, and a timeout time control meansfor changing the timeout time according to the environmental condition detected by the environmental condition detection means.

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Tokyo, Japan

Ryo Iwamiya