Abstract: According to one embodiment, a linked-work assistance apparatus includes an analysis unit, an identification unit and a control unit. The analysis unit analyzes a speech of each of users by using a keyword list, to acquire a speech analysis result indicating a relation between a first keyword and a classification of the first keyword, the keyword list indicating a list of keywords classified based on concepts of the keywords and intentions of the keywords. The identification unit identifies a role of each of the users according to the classification of the first keyword, to acquire a correspondence relation between each of the users and the role. The control unit, if the speech includes a name of the role, transmits the speech to other users which relate to the role corresponding to the name, by referring to the correspondence relation.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a speech recognition apparatus includes following units. The service estimation unit estimates a service being performed by a user, by using non-speech information, and to generate service information. The speech recognition unit performs speech recognition on speech information in accordance with a speech recognition technique corresponding to the service information. The feature quantity extraction unit extracts a feature quantity related to the service of the user, from the speech recognition result. The service estimation unit re-estimates the service by using the feature quantity. The speech recognition unit performs speech recognition based on the re-estimation result.