WORD SPOTTING SPEECH RECOGNIZING DEVICE

PURPOSE:To prevent an incorrect candidate from appearing and a correct candi date from being omitted. CONSTITUTION:The word spotting speech recognizing device is equipped with a candidate rejection part 15 which rejects a recognition candidate when the precedence time of the recognition candidate outputted by a recognition likelihood calculation part 9 to the head end position of a speech signal section decided by a speech section decision part 3 for the head end position of the recognition candidate is larger than a previously set permissible time, when the delay time to the tail end position of the speech signal section decided by a speech section decision part for the tail end position of the recognition candidate is larger than a previously set permissible time, or when the head end position of the recognition candidate is behind to the tail end position of the speech signal section decided by the speech section decision part 3 or the tail end position of the recognition candidate is precedent to the head end position of the speech signal section decided by the speech section decision part 3.