In a speech recognizing apparatus, a grammatical qualification of a proposed speech recognition result candidate is judged without using a grammatical rule. The speech recognizing apparatus for performing sentence/speech recognition is comprised of an analyzing unit for acoustically analyzing speech inputted therein to extract a feature parameter of the inputted speech; a recognizing unit for recognizing the inputted speech based upon the feature parameter outputted from said analyzing unit to thereby a plurality of proposed recognition result candidates; an example data base for storing therein a plurality of examples; and an example retrieving unit for calculating a resemblance degree between each of said plurality of proposed recognition result candidates and each of the plural examples stored in the example data base and for obtaining the speech recognition result based on said calculated resemblance degree.