A method for detecting a character or a word emphasized by a user from a voice inputted in a mobile terminal to refer it as meaningful information for a voice recognition, or emphatically displaying the user-emphasized character or word in a pre-set format when the inputted voice is converted into text, and a mobile terminal implementing the same are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes: a microphone to receive a voice of user; a controller to convert the received voice into corresponding text and detect a character or a word emphatically pronounced by the user from the voice; and a display unit to emphatically display the detected character or word in a pre-set format when the converted text is displayed.