Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120078629 | MEETING SUPPORT APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a meeting support apparatus includes a storage unit, a determination unit, a generation unit. The storage unit is configured to store storage information for each of words, the storage information indicating a word of the words, pronunciation information on the word, and pronunciation recognition frequency. The determination unit is configured to generate emphasis determination information including an emphasis level that represents whether a first word should be highlighted and represents a degree of highlighting determined in accordance with a pronunciation recognition frequency of a second word when the first word is highlighted, based on whether the storage information includes second set corresponding to first set and based on the pronunciation recognition frequency of the second word when the second set is included. The generation unit is configured to generate an emphasis character string based on the emphasis determination information when the first word is highlighted. | 03-29-2012 |
20120154514 | CONFERENCE SUPPORT APPARATUS AND CONFERENCE SUPPORT METHOD - A conference support apparatus for supporting a conference held between at least two terminals, includes: a delay unit configured to delay first voice data obtained by one of the terminals, in accordance with a delay caused by an information extraction processing performed on the first voice data; and a delay information video generation unit configured to generate a delay information video obtained by visualizing information about the delay of the first voice data that is delayed by the delay unit. | 06-21-2012 |
20130030794 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLUSTERING SPEAKERS, AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a speaker clustering apparatus includes a clustering unit, an extraction unit, and an error detection unit. The clustering unit is configured to extract acoustic features for speakers from an acoustic signal, and to cluster utterances included in the acoustic signal into the speakers by using the acoustic features. The extraction unit is configured to acquire character strings representing contents of the utterances, and to extract linguistic features of the speakers by using the character strings. The error detection unit is configured to decide that, when one of the character strings does not fit with a linguistic feature of a speaker into which an utterance of the one is clustered, the utterance is erroneously clustered by the clustering unit. | 01-31-2013 |
20130030805 | TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORT METHOD - According to one embodiment, a transcription support system supports transcription work to convert voice data to text. The system includes a first storage unit configured to store therein the voice data; a playback unit configured to play back the voice data; a second storage unit configured to store therein voice indices, each of which associates a character string obtained from a voice recognition process with voice positional information, for which the voice positional information is indicative of a temporal position in the voice data and corresponds to the character string; a text creating unit that creates the text in response to an operation input of a user; and an estimation unit configured to estimate already-transcribed voice positional information indicative of a position at which the creation of the text is completed in the voice data based on the voice indices. | 01-31-2013 |
20130030806 | TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORT METHOD - In an embodiment, a transcription support system includes: a first storage, a playback unit, a second storage, a text generating unit, an estimating unit, and a setting unit. The first storage stores the voice data therein; a playback unit plays back the voice data; and a second storage stores voice indices, each of which associates a character string obtained from a voice recognition process with voice positional information, for which the voice positional information is indicative of a temporal position in the voice data and corresponds to the character string. The text creating unit creates text; the estimating unit estimates already-transcribed voice positional information based on the voice indices; and the setting unit sets a playback starting position that indicates a position at which playback is started in the voice data based on the already-transcribed voice positional information. | 01-31-2013 |
20130080163 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a storage unit, a detector, an acquisition unit, and a search unit. The storage unit configured to store therein voice indices, each of which associates a character string included in voice text data obtained from a voice recognition process with voice positional information, the voice positional information indicating a temporal position in the voice data and corresponding to the character string. The acquisition unit acquires reading information being at least a part of a character string representing a reading of a phrase to be transcribed from the voice data played back. The search unit specifies, as search targets, character strings whose associated voice positional information is included in the played-back section information among the character strings included in the voice indices, and retrieves a character string including the reading represented by the reading information from among the specified character strings. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080174 | RETRIEVING DEVICE, RETRIEVING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In an embodiment, a retrieving device includes: a text input unit, a first extracting unit, a retrieving unit, a second extracting unit, an acquiring unit, and a selecting unit. The text input unit inputs a text including unknown word information representing a phrase that a user was unable to transcribe. The first extracting unit extracts related words representing a phrase related to the unknown word information among phrases other than the unknown word information included in the text. The retrieving unit retrieves a related document representing a document including the related words. The second extracting unit extracts candidate words representing candidates for the unknown word information from a plurality of phrases included in the related document. The acquiring unit acquires reading information representing estimated pronunciation of the unknown word information. The selecting unit selects at least one of candidate word of which pronunciation is similar to the reading information. | 03-28-2013 |
20130191125 | TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORTING SYSTEM AND TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORTING METHOD - A transcription supporting system for the conversion of voice data to text data includes a first storage module, a playing module, a voice recognition module, an index generating module, a second storage module, a text forming module, and an estimation module. The first storage module stores the voice data. The playing module plays the voice data. The voice recognition module executes the voice recognition processing on the voice data. The index generating module generates a voice index that makes the plural text strings generated in the voice recognition processing correspond to voice position data. The second storage module stores the voice index. The text forming module forms text corresponding to input of a user correcting or editing the generated text strings. The estimation module estimates the formed voice position indicating the last position in the voice data where the user corrected/confirmed the voice recognition. | 07-25-2013 |
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 |