The present invention, pertaining to the field of speech recognition, discloses a reminder setting method and apparatus. The method includes: acquiring speech signals; acquiring time information in speech signals by using keyword recognition, and determining reminder time for reminder setting according to the time information; acquiring text sequence corresponding to the speech signals by using continuous speech recognition, and determining reminder content for reminder setting according to the time information and the text sequence; and setting a reminder according to the reminder time and the reminder content. According to the present invention, acquiring time information in speech signals by using keyword recognition ensures correctness of time information extraction, and achieves an effect that correct time information is still acquired by keyword recognition to set a reminder even in the case that a recognized text sequence is incorrect due to poor precision in whole text recognition in the speech recognition.