APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING SPEECH USING USER LOCATION INFORMATION

摘要

Disclosed are a device and a method for recognizing a voice using user location information. The device and the method of the present invention are capable of improving performance of a voice recognition service by using user location information to provide customized sound model and language model. The device for recognizing a voice using user location information according to the present invention comprises: a voice receiving unit to receive a user voice to be recognized; a location information identifying unit to identify user location information; a sound model extracting unit to analyze a noise circumstance of the place where a user is located by using the user location information, and extract a sound model corresponding to the noise circumstance from a sound model database; a vocabulary language model extracting unit to extract, from a vocabulary language model database, a vocabulary language model corresponding to the place where the user is located; and a voice recognizing unit to recognize the user voice by using the sound model and the vocabulary language model.