Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kouji Ueno

Tomoo Ikeda

Nobuhiro Shimogori

Shoko Miyamori

Manabu Nagao

Hirokazu Suzuki

Tetsuro Chino

Osamu Nishiyama

Taira Ashikawa

Shinichi Nagano

Mitsuyoshi Tachimori

Takahiro Kawamura

Takashi Masuko

Tetsuo Hasegawa

Kenta Cho

Masayuki Okamoto

Kouta Nakata

Akihiko Ohsuga

Kenta Sasaki

Osamu Nisiyama

According to an embodiment, a communication support device includes a first acquisition unit, a creation unit, and an output unit. The first acquisition unit acquires a message to be notified to a user. The creation unit creates type information indicating a type of content of the message. The output unit outputs the message in an output mode based on importance of the message among a plurality of output modes including at least a first output mode for outputting an entire message, a second output mode for outputting the type information, and a third output mode for outputting reception information indicating reception of the message.

Multi-output mode communication support device, communication support method, and computer program product

A communication support device performs communication with a plurality of terminal devices. The communication support device includes an acquirer, a changer, and a deliverer. The acquirer acquires messages from the terminal devices. The changer changes, on the acquired message, a delivery mode of the message to the delivery mode that eliminates confusion when the message has a possibility of causing the confusion. The deliverer delivers the message to the terminal devices in the delivery mode that is changed.

Communication support device, communication support method, and computer program product

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.

Transcription support system and transcription support method

According to an embodiment, a data processing device generates result data which represents a result of performing predetermined processing on series data. The device includes an upper-level processor and a lower-level processor. The upper-level processor attaches order information to data blocks constituting the series data. The lower-level processor performs lower-level processing on the data blocks having the order information attached thereto, and attaches common order information, which is in common with the data blocks, to values obtained as a result of the lower-level processing. The upper-level processor integrates the values, which have the common order information attached thereto, based on the common order information and performs upper-level processing to generate the result data.

Data processing device, data processing method, and computer program product

A voice starting end detection apparatus includes a first detector that detects a starting end of a voice segment from input signals that are input in a time series, a first transmitting unit that transmits, when the starting end is detected, input signals subsequent to the starting end, and a first receiving unit that receives a terminal end detection signal indicating that a terminal end of the voice segment has been detected. The voice terminal end detection apparatus includes a second receiving unit that receives input signals subsequent to the starting end, a second detector that detects the terminal end from the received input signals, a second transmitting unit that transmits, when the terminal end is detected, the terminal end detection signal. The first transmitting unit stops transmitting the input signals when the first receiving unit receives the terminal end detection signal.

Voice segment detection system, voice starting end detection apparatus, and voice terminal end detection apparatus

According to an embodiment, a communication support apparatus supports communication among users. The apparatus includes a message receiver to receive a message from a user terminal; a participation request transmission controller to control such that, when the received message is a participation request message, the participation request message is transmitted to a user terminal to which the participation request message is to be transmitted; a response receiver to receive a response to the participation request message from the user terminal to which the participation request message has been transmitted; a group generator to generate a conversation group including as members the user terminal that has responded to the participation request message and the user terminal serving as a transmission source; and a conversation controller to control delivery of messages in the conversation mode such that a message received from a member of the conversation group is transmitted to another member.

Participation request messaging to members of a conversation group

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.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer program product

According to an embodiment, a memory controller stores, in a memory, character strings in voice text obtained through voice recognition on voice data, a node index, a recognition score, and a voice index. A detector detects reproduction section of the voice data. An obtainer obtains reading of a phrase in a text written down from the reproduced voice data, and obtains insertion position of character strings. A searcher searches for a character string including the reading. A determiner determines whether to perform display based on the recognition score corresponding to the retrieved character string. A history updater stores, in a memory, candidate history data indicating the retrieved character string, the recognition score, and the character insertion position. A threshold updater decides on a display threshold value using the recognition score of the candidate history data and/or the recognition score of the character string selected by a selector.

Information processing device, method and computer program product for processing voice recognition data

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.

According to an embodiment, a server device includes a first registering unit, a second registering unit, and a providing unit. The first registering unit is configured to acquire first action information regarding an action performed by a first user from a client device, and register the first action information in an action information storage unit in which pieces of action information of users are stored in association with labels of the respective pieces of action information. The second registering unit is configured to specify at least one piece of action information similar to the first action information among the pieces of action information, and register the label associated with the specified piece of action information in the action information storage unit in association with the first action information. The providing unit is configured to provide the label associated with the first action information to the client device.

Server device, annotation system, annotation method, and computer program product

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.

Information processing apparatus for associating speaker identification information to speech data

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.

Meeting support apparatus, method and program

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.

Conference support apparatus and conference support method

A semantic analysis apparatus includes a data obtaining unit that obtains data in which an item name and an item value belonging to the item name are represented in a predetermined data format; an item value extracting unit that extracts the item value from the data based on the data format; a concept storing unit that stores a concept which is a semantic notion to be attached to the item name and an instance which is specific data of the concept in association with each other; a concept specifying unit that specifies the concept, which is stored in the concept storing unit and which is associated with the instance which at least partially matches with a character string of the extracted item value, as the concept for the item name; and an associating unit that associates the concept with the item name.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kouji Ueno