Adaptation to the speech rate is made by segmentation of the speech signal in '%'voiced'%' and '%'unvoiced'%' periods, while adaptation to the speech volume is made by using a variable threshold for quantizing the spectrum of the signal. The vocabulary used for recognition consists of the 10 German numerals and the instructions '%'plus'%', '%'minus'%', '%'start'%' and '%'Loeschen'%'. For testing the speech recognition system the vocabulary was spoken by 50 male and 50 female speakers. The results of the experiments are presented.