Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Fumiaki Ito

Yuji Ikeda

Takaya Ueda

Kenichi Fujii

Hiroki Yamamoto

Tetsuo Kosaka

Tomoyuki Shimizu

Noriko Otani

In a voice browser apparatus, an HTML document is obtained from a designated URL, the obtained document is analyzed based on a rule designated from a plurality of rules for defining voice input/output contents to fetch voice output contents, voice input candidates and designation information for designating a next object of processing corresponding to each voice input candidate, and the fetched voice output contents are voice-outputted. Then, the voice input from a user for this output is voice-recognized, and controls obtainment of a new document and next analysis based on designation information corresponding to the input candidate matching the recognition result. Thereby, contents for the graphical user interface can easily be browsed using voice input/output.

Voice browser apparatus and voice browsing method

To provide a browser apparatus with the contents of data provided on a network in a form of voice data, voice data indicating a part or the whole of the contents of the data provided on the network is formed and stored on a gateway, on the basis of the data. Data is formed by adding to the data provided on the network an identifier &#x3c;VOICEOUT . . . &#x3e; indicating a location where the voice data is stored. This data is provided to the browser apparatus. The browser apparatus receives the voice data from the location indicated by the identifier.

Voice browser system

This invention has as its object to provide a speech recognition system to which a client and a device that provides a speech recognition process are connected, which provides a plurality of usable speech recognition means to the client, and which allows the client to explicitly switch and use the plurality of speech recognition means connected to the network. To achieve this object, a speech recognition system of this invention has speech input means for inputting speech at the client, designation means for designating one of the plurality of usable speech recognition means, and processing means for making the speech recognition means designated by the designation means recognize speech input from the speech input means.

Speech recognition system, speech recognition apparatus, and speech recognition method

An information processing apparatus inputs a document having a plurality of input fields, and displays it using a display control item. The apparatus then determines whether or not one of the plurality of input fields is designated by the user. Specific grammar corresponding to the designated input field is selected from a grammar holding unit for holding a plurality of types of grammar, and the selected grammar is used in a speech recognition process.

Information processing apparatus and method, a computer readable medium storing a control program for making a computer implemented information process, and a control program for selecting a specific grammar corresponding to an active input field or for controlling selection of a grammar or comprising a code of a selection step of selecting a specific grammar

In a sound data setting apparatus for setting an output format of each sound to output sounds corresponding to a plurality of sound data, metadata indicating contents of each sound data is acquired and an output format of a sound concerning the sound data corresponding to the metadata is set on the basis of each metadata.

Sound data processing system and processing method

There is provided a text search apparatus capable of dividing a structured document such as an HTML document into segments, and presenting segments containing a given search key as the search result, thereby providing a part of the document matching the search condition as the result of search. The document is divided into segments by specified tags, and a level of association with an adjacent segment is calculated. A header is detected by a header tag, and the header information is added to the segment contained in the range of the header. Segments are divided and re-integrated according to the level of association therebetween, and indexes are prepared. A search is executed for two indexes, and the level of matching is calculated by weighting the search results for the indexes, and the search result judged according to such level of matching is stored or outputted for each segment.

Segmented document indexing and search

An information processing apparatus inputs a document having a plurality of input items, and displays it using an information display unit. An active input field is discriminated from the plurality of input fields in accordance with the display state of the document. A specific grammar corresponding to the discriminated active input field is selected from a grammar holding unit for holding a plurality of types of grammars, and the selected grammar is used in a speech recognition process.

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, A COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING A CONTROL PROGRAM FOR MAKING A COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED INFORMATION PROCESS, AND A CONTROL PROGRAM FOR SELECTING A SPECIFIC GRAMMAR CORRESPONDING TO AN ACTIVE INPUT FIELD OR FOR CONTROLLING SELECTION OF A GRAMMAR OR COMPRISING A CODE OF A SELECTION STEP OF SELECTING A SPECIFIC GRAMMAR

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Kanagawa, Japan

Fumiaki Ito