4. The emotion recognition apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising: at least a feature parameter database storing a feature parameter of a voice which includes the characteristic tone, for each phoneme type, wherein the speech recognition unit is configured to recognize the types of the phonemes included in the input speech, based on the feature parameter database.
4. The emotion recognition apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising: at least a feature parameter database storing a feature parameter of a voice which includes the characteristic tone, for each phoneme type, wherein the speech recognition unit is configured to recognize the types of the phonemes included in the input speech, based on the feature parameter database. 5. The emotion recognition apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the feature parameter database includes: a first database storing a feature parameter of a voice which includes at least one characteristic tone including the characteristic tone, for each phoneme type; and a second database storing a feature parameter of a voice which includes no characteristic tone, for each phoneme type, the emotion recognition apparatus further comprises: a selection unit configured to select a database corresponding to a result of the detection by the characteristic tone detection unit, from the first database and the second database, and the speech recognition unit is configured to recognize the types of the phonemes included in the input speech, based on the database selected by the selection unit.