Abstract: A method and a device for processing of speech information uses the input and/or storage and/or the acoustical reproduction and/or for the transmission of speed and data information to other devices for local storage and/or reproduction, as well as searching for one or several speech segments in the stored speech information. A recording and search/reproduction of speech information is ensured without manual designation and classification and without the requirement of a vocabulary. Spoken words and/or correlated sentences (memorandums) are digitally recorded as speech signals in a memory which, in a partial scope of at least one word, are again spoken for search purposes and are compared in a device with the recordings and subsequently evaluated, from which a score between the two speech patterns is determined and the memorandum with the smallest score is issued/reproduced acoustically.