A voice recognition apparatus used in a robot performs voice recognition in different manners depending upon the growth state of the robot thereby allowing the robot to provide better entertainment to a user. A growth score setting unit sets growth scores to respective words described in a word dictionary stored in a dictionary memory. A matching unit performs voice recognition for the words included in the word dictionary, taking into account the growth scores defined for the respective words.

 
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