Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080208563 | Apparatus and method for translating speech in source language into target language, and computer program product for executing the method - An associated-information storage unit stores a name of associated information and a display position in association with each other. An example storage unit stores a semantic class, an example in a source language, and an example in a target language in association with each other. A dictionary storage unit stores the name of associated information and the semantic class in association with each other. An acquiring unit acquires the name of the associated information corresponding to the display position of the selected associated information from the associated-information storage unit, and acquires a semantic class corresponding to the acquired name of the associated information from the dictionary storage unit. A translation unit acquires an example in the target language corresponding to the acquired semantic class and a speech recognition result from the example storage unit, thereby translating the recognition result. | 08-28-2008 |
20080221877 | User interactive apparatus and method, and computer program product - A response storage unit stores a response, a watching degree relative to a display unit, and an output form of the response to a speaker and the display unit. An extracting unit extracts a request from a speech recognition result. A response determining unit determines a response based on the extracted request. A direction detector detects a viewing direction of a user. A watching-degree determining unit determines a watching degree based on the viewing direction. An output controller obtains an output form corresponding to the response and the determined watching degree from the response storage unit, and output the response to the speaker and the display unit according to the obtained output form. | 09-11-2008 |
20090222257 | SPEECH TRANSLATION APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A translation direction specifying unit specifies a first language and a second language. A speech recognizing unit recognizes a speech signal of the first language and outputs a first language character string. A first translating unit translates the first language character string into a second language character string that will be displayed on a display device. A keyword extracting unit extracts a keyword for a document retrieval from the first language character string or the second language character string, with which a document retrieving unit performs a document retrieval. A second translating unit translates a retrieved document into its opponent language, which will be displayed on the display device. | 09-03-2009 |
20120221323 | TRANSLATION DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a translation unit translates a first sentence in a first language into a sentence in a second language using parallel translations. A next utterance table includes first identification information distinguishing between a sentence in the first language and a sentence in the second language included in the parallel translation and includes second identification information identifying a sentence previously selected as the next utterance of the sentence indicated by the first identification information. An acquiring unit acquires next utterance candidates, which are sentences indicated by the second identification information associated with the first identification information of the first sentence. If the selected next utterance candidate is the first language, the translation unit translates the selected next utterance candidate into the second language. If the selected next utterance candidate is the second language, the translation unit translates the selected candidate into the first language. | 08-30-2012 |
20120296647 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - In an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes: a converting unit; a selecting unit; a dividing unit; a generating unit; and a display processing unit. The converting unit recognizes a voice input from a user into a character string. The selecting unit selects characters from the character string according to designation of the user. The dividing unit converts the selected characters into phonetic characters and divides the phonetic characters into phonetic characters of sound units. The generating unit extracts similar character candidates corresponding to each of the divided phonetic characters of the sound units, from a similar character dictionary storing a plurality of phonetic characters of sound units similar in sound as the similar character candidates in association with each other, and generates correction character candidates for the selected characters. The display processing unit makes a display unit display the generated correction character candidates selectable by the user. | 11-22-2012 |
20130006616 | INFORMATION RETRIEVING APPARATUS, INFORMATION RETRIEVING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an information retrieving apparatus includes a housing; an input-output unit to perform dialogue processing with a user; a first detecting unit to detect means of transfer which indicates present means of transfer for the user; a second detecting unit to detect a holding status which indicates whether the user is holding the housing; a third detecting unit to detect a talking posture which indicates whether the housing is held near the face of the user; a selecting unit to select, from among a plurality of interaction modes that establish the dialogue processing, an interaction mode according to a combination of the means of transfer, the holding status, and the talking posture; an dialogue manager to control the dialogue processing according to the selected interaction mode; and a information retrieval unit to retrieve information using a keyword that is input during the dialogue processing. | 01-03-2013 |
20130218553 | INFORMATION NOTIFICATION SUPPORTING DEVICE, INFORMATION NOTIFICATION SUPPORTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an information notification supporting device includes an analyzer configured to analyze an input voice so as to identify voice information indicating information related to speech; a storage unit configured to store therein a history of the voice information; an output controller configured to determine, using the history of the voice information, whether a user is able to listen to a message of which the user should be notified; and an output unit configured to output the message when it is determined that the user is in a state in which the user is able to listen to the message. | 08-22-2013 |
20130253932 | CONVERSATION SUPPORTING DEVICE, CONVERSATION SUPPORTING METHOD AND CONVERSATION SUPPORTING PROGRAM - A conversation supporting device of an embodiment of the present disclosure has a information storage unit, a recognition resource constructing unit, and a voice recognition unit. Here, the information storage unit stores the information disclosed by a speaker. The recognition resource constructing unit uses the disclosed information to construct the recognition resource including a voice model and a language model for recognition of voice data. The voice recognition unit uses the recognition resource to recognize the voice data. | 09-26-2013 |