To provide an unspecified-speaker Chinse voice recognition device for portable telephone which has high precision and very small storage capacity.

The unspecified-speaker Chinese voice recognition device for portable telephone has a key pad part for storing a phoneme symbol corresponding to a key signal indicated according to the frequency of operation of a specific key of the portable telephone, a microphone input part for using voice input for the voice recognition of a system, a mode display part for displaying which of a Chinse-character input modes, namely a grating recognition mode, a voice recognition mode, and a functional operation mode, is operating, a display memory part and a display part for displaying the messages of a mode function and operation on the portable telephone, a memory buffer register part for temporary calculation and the storage of data, and a speaker output part for the voice output of the portable telephone.