To provide a device and a method for collecting utterance data for speech recognition, and a computer program that can efficiently collect the utterance data while keeping the precision of speech recognition high.

Provided are a voice interaction device including a means of storing interaction scenario information in which a progress procedure of interaction is described, a means of accepting inputted utterance, a means of recognizing the speech of the inputted utterance, a means of advancing the interaction according to the speech recognition result and interaction scenario information, and a means of outputting an answer to the utterance, a means of storing a state transition history of the interaction based upon the interaction scenario information, a means of judging whether or not the inputted utterance is correctly recognized according to the speech recognition result and state transition history, and a means of storing the speech recognition result and inputted utterance so that they correspond to each other when it is judged that the inputted utterance is correctly recognized.