1. Speech recognition apparatus for recognizing a plurality of statements each comprising a plurality of spoken words, the apparatus including a store containing a reference vocabulary of all the words in the statements to be recognized, means for supplying speech signals to said apparatus in accordance with the spoken words of a current statement, and a unit that compares each spoken word in said current statement with the reference vocabulary and operates to produce a plurality of output signals representative of said spoken words in said current statement, the apparatus including a processing unit including a plurality of groups of storage locations, each said group being associated with an individual one of the statements, each of the storage locations within each group being associated with a respective individual one of the spoken words in said individual one of said statements, the apparatus including means for supplying said output signals representative of the spoken words into the storage location in the processing unit associated with each of the spoken words in said current statement in all the groups having such a storage location regardless of the order in which each word is spoken in said current statement thereby to mark the storage locations associated with each of the spoken words, and the processing unit including an output unit that ascertains which group of storage locations has the greatest proportion of marked locations and is thereby identified most closely with said current statement.
6. Speech recognition apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the said means for supplying speech signals to said apparatus includes a microphone.