Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Solutions Corporation

Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation

Kaoru Hirano

Masaru Suzuki

Kenta Cho

Hiroyuki Mizutani

Kazuyuki Goto

Yasunari Miyabe

Masahisa Shinozaki

Keisuke Sakanushi

Guowei Zu

According to an embodiment, a dictionary updating apparatus includes a candidate extraction unit, a selection control unit, and a word registration unit. The candidate extraction unit extracts, based on a recognition result text obtained by a voice recognition engine performing a voice recognition processing using a word dictionary and a correction result text obtained by correcting at least a part of the recognition result text, candidates of words to be additionally registered in the word dictionary. The selection control unit generates a selection screen on which the extracted candidates are displayed selectably and, at the same time, information indicating the influence on the voice recognition processing at least when the candidates are additionally registered in the word dictionary is displayed, and accepts an operation of selecting the candidates displayed on the selection screen. The word registration unit registers additionally the candidates selected on the selection screen in the word dictionary.

Dictionary updating apparatus, dictionary updating method and computer program product

According to an embodiment, a voice synthesizer includes a content selection unit, a content generation unit, and a content registration unit. The content selection unit determines selected content among a plurality of pieces of content registered in a content storage unit. The content includes tagged text in which tag information for controlling voice synthesis is added to text serving as a target of the voice synthesis. The content generation unit applies the tag information in the tagged text included in the selected content to designated text to generate new content. The content registration unit registers the generated new content in the content storage unit.

Voice synthesizer, voice synthesis method, and computer program product

A voice selection supporting device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an acceptance unit that accepts input of a text, an analysis knowledge storage unit that stores therein text analysis knowledge to be used for characteristic analysis for the input text, an analysis unit that analyzes a characteristic of the text by referring to the text analysis knowledge, a voice attribute storage unit that stores therein a voice attribute of each voice dictionary, an evaluation unit that evaluates similarity between the voice attribute of the voice dictionary and the characteristic of the text, and a candidate presentation unit that presents, based on the similarity, a candidate for the voice dictionary suitable for the text.

Voice selection supporting device, voice selection method, and computer-readable recording medium

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Tokyo, Japan

Kaoru Hirano