This paper presents a method for speech recognition using multi-section vector-quantization (MSVQ) and time-delay recurrent neural network (TDTNN). The MSVQ generates the codebook with normalized uniform sections of voice signal, and the TDRNN performs the speech recognition using the MSVQ codebook. The TDRNN is a time-delay recurrent neural network classifier with two different representations of dynamic context: the time-delayed input nodes represent local dynamic context, while the recursive nodes are able to represent long-term dynamic context of voice signal. The cepstral PLP coefficients were used as speech features. In the speech recognition experiments, the MSVQ/TDRNN speech recognizer shows 97.9 % word recognition rate for speaker independent recognition.