Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130080156 | VOICE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In an embodiment, a voice recognition apparatus includes: a program information storage unit; a dictionary storage unit; a calculating unit; an updating unit; a receiving unit; a recognizing unit; and an operation control unit. The program information storage unit stores metadata of a broadcast program with a user's viewing state. The dictionary storage unit stores a recognition dictionary including a recognition word and a priority of the recognition word. The calculating unit calculates a first score of a degree of the user's preference on a feature word based on the metadata and the viewing state. The updating unit updates the priority of the recognition word including the feature word according to the first score. The recognizing unit recognizes a voice using the recognition dictionary. The operation control unit controls an operation on the broadcast program based on a recognition result. | 03-28-2013 |
20140046666 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a dividing unit, an assigning unit, and a generating unit. The dividing unit is configured to divide speech data into pieces of utterance data. The assigning unit is configured to assign speaker identification information to each piece of utterance data based on an acoustic feature of the each piece of utterance data. The generating unit is configured to generate a candidate list that indicates candidate speaker names so as to enable a user to determine a speaker name to be given to the piece of utterance data identified by instruction information, based on operation history information in which at least pieces of utterance identification information, pieces of the speaker identification information, and speaker names given by the user to the respective pieces of utterance data are associated with one another. | 02-13-2014 |
20140303974 | TEXT GENERATOR, TEXT GENERATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a text generator includes a recognizer, a selector, and a generation unit. The recognizer is configured to recognize an acquired sound and obtain recognized character strings in recognition units and confidence levels of the recognized character strings. The selector is configured to select at least one of the recognized character strings used for a transcribed sentence on the basis of at least one of a parameter about transcription accuracy and a parameter about a workload needed for transcription. The generation unit is configured to generate the transcribed sentence using the selected recognized character strings. | 10-09-2014 |
20140372117 | TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORT DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a transcription support device includes a first voice acquisition unit, a second voice acquisition unit, a recognizer, a text acquisition unit, an information acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a controller. The first voice acquisition unit acquires a first voice to be transcribed. The second voice acquisition unit acquires a second voice uttered by a user. The recognizer recognizes the second voice to generate a first text. The text acquisition unit acquires a second text obtained by correcting the first text by the user. The information acquisition unit acquires reproduction information representing a reproduction section of the first voice. The determination unit determines a reproduction speed of the first voice on the basis of the first voice, the second voice, the second text, and the reproduction information. The controller reproduces the first voice at the determined reproduction speed. | 12-18-2014 |
20150025877 | CHARACTER INPUT DEVICE, CHARACTER INPUT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a character input device includes a first obtainer, a determiner, a first generator, and an outputter. The first obtainer receives an input of characters from a user and obtains an input character string. The determiner infers, from the input character string, word notations intended by the user and relations of connection between the word notations and to determine routes each of which represents the relation of connection having a high likelihood of serving as a notation candidate intended by the user. The first generator extracts, from a group of word notations included in the routes, the word notations to be output and generate layout information used in outputting the extracted word notations as the notation candidates. The outputter outputs the layout information. | 01-22-2015 |
20150212922 | DATA ANALYSIS APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a data analysis apparatus includes a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, an analysis unit and a totaling unit. The first acquisition unit acquires, for each of a plurality of target contents, a content information item including a broadcast time of one of the target contents and information which relates to a broadcast channel on which the one of the target contents is broadcasted. The second acquisition unit acquires viewing log information items each including an identification number, a viewing time and a viewing channel. The analysis unit calculates a viewing state with the identification number for each of the target contents and obtains a viewing pattern. The totaling unit totals the viewing pattern by the numbers of identification numbers. | 07-30-2015 |
20150269162 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a first feature calculator, a second feature calculator, a similarity calculator, and a selector. The first feature calculator is configured to calculate a topic feature representing a strength of relevance of document of at least one topic to a target document that matches a purpose for which a language model is to be used. The second feature calculator is configured to calculate the topic feature for each of a plurality of candidate documents. The similarity calculator is configured to calculate a similarity of each of the topic features of the candidate documents to the topic feature of the target document. The selector is configured to select, as a document to be used for learning the language model, a candidate document whose similarity is larger than a reference value from among the candidate documents. | 09-24-2015 |
20160080812 | PROGRAM EXTRACTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a program extraction apparatus includes an acquirer, a setting unit, a first calculator and an extractor. The acquirer acquires a viewing history including information on at least one program viewed by each of users, and an area code indicating a location of the each of users. The setting unit sets a range of a target area by using the area code. The first calculator calculates, for each program included in the viewing history of at least one user belonging to the target area, a viewing amount indicating how much the program was viewed to obtain a local area viewing amount. The extractor extracts at least one program by referring to the local area viewing amount. | 03-17-2016 |