An apparatus and method for improving voice recognition are disclosed herein. The apparatus includes a standard voice transmission unit, a Mel-frequency cepstrum coefficient (MFCC) generation unit, and an MFCC compensation unit. The standard voice transmission unit generates a standard voice. The MFCC generation unit generates voice feature data (MFCC) based on the utterance of the standard voice before voice recognition. The MFCC compensation unit stores a gain value generated based on the standard voice, and compensates for the distortion of the voice feature data based on the utterance of a user using the gain value during the voice recognition.