VOICE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VOICE INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

Provided is "a voice information processing apparatus (1) and a voice information processing method" that enable a user to complete conversion of a desired sentence into text without performing complicated work in a case where the utterance is interrupted while the utterance is being converted into text.A voice information processing apparatus (1) sequentially converts an utterance of a user into text during a voice reception period that is a period in which an uttered voice to be converted into text is received from a user, and in a case where it can be regarded that the utterance of the user has been interrupted, the voice information processing apparatus (1) automatically causes utterance content already uttered by the user to be output by a voice during the voice reception period. As a result, the voice information processing apparatus (1) can cause the user to recognize a content of a sentence that has been uttered by the user so far and converted into text, when it becomes a situation in which it can be regarded that the utterance of the user has been interrupted.