Abstract Speech recognition will play an important role in taking technology to the general Users. Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition together form a speech interface. A speech synthesizer converts text into speech. Thus it can read out the textual contents from the screen. Speech recognizer had the ability to understand the spoken words and convert it into text. Our goal is to develop speech recognition system that can recognize Konkani Words. 1 Introduction In todays world, computers have become absolutely indispensable especially for the people of urban India. But for the development of the country, where most of the people live in rural areas as a whole, the technology has to reach them as well. The various computer accessories, like