Speech recognizing method and apparatus, and speech translating system

A speech recognizing method for performing sentence/speech recognition, comprising the steps of:

• acoustically analyzing input speech to extract a feature parameter of said input speech;
• recognizing said input speech based upon said extracted feature parameter so as to obtain a plurality of proposed recognition result candidates;
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• calculating a resemblance degree between each of said plurality of proposed recognition result candidates and each of plural examples stored in example memory means and then obtaining said speech recognition result based upon said calculated resemblance degree.

A speech translating apparatus for translating a language of inputted speech into another language, comprising:

• extracting means for acoustically analyzing speech inputted therein to extract a feature parameter of said inputted speech;
• recognizing means for recognizing said inputted speech based upon said feature parameter outputted from said extracting means to thereby obtain a plurality of proposed recognition result candidates;
• example memory means for storing therein a plurality of examples;
• calculation means for calculating a resemblance degree between each of said plurality of proposed recognition result candidates and each of the plural examples stored in said example memory means and for obtaining said speech recognition result based on said calculated resemblance degree, and
• translating means for translating the language of said speech recognition result outputted from said calculation means into said another language.