Automated generation of phonemic lexicon for voice activated cockpit management systems

A system, method and program for acquiring from an input text a character string set and generating the pronunciation thereof which should be recognized as a word is disclosed. The system selects from an input text, plural candidate character strings which are phonemic character candidates or allophones to be recognized as a word; generates plural pronunciation candidates of the selected candidate character string and outputs the optimum pronunciation candidate to be recognized as a word; generates phonemic dictionary by combining data in which the pronunciation candidate with optimal recognition is respectively associated with the character strings; generates recognition data in which character strings respectively indicating plural words contained in the input speech are associated with pronunciations; and outputs a combination contained in the recognition data, out of combinations each consisting of one of the candidate character strings and the one of the pronunciations candidates with the optimum recognition.