A voice recognition system used for onboard equipment having a genre database (DB) that stores search target vocabularies in accordance with respective genres. It has a mike 1 for outputting speech sounds as spoken data; a first voice recognition dictionary 2a for recognizing words of search target genres in the genre DB; a second voice recognition dictionary 2b for recognizing words outside the search target genres; a voice recognition unit 3 for recognizing the speech sounds by collating the spoken data delivered from the mike with the vocabularies contained in the first and second voice recognition dictionaries; an interactive control unit 4 for outputting, when a word delivered from the voice recognition unit as a recognition result is a word obtained using the second voice recognition dictionary, a message so stating as presentation information; and a presentation unit 5 for presenting the presentation information to an outside.