An image display apparatus, a method for driving the same, and a computer readable recording medium are provided. The image display apparatus includes a speech acquirer configured to acquire a speech command created by a user, a speech recognition executor configured to acquire text information which has a phonetic symbol that is the same as or similar to a phonetic symbol of a text-based recognition result corresponding to the acquired speech command and is expressed in a form that is different from a form of the text-based recognition result, and an operation performer configured to perform an operation corresponding to the acquired text information.