Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Nobuhiro Shimogori

Tomoo Ikeda

Kouji Ueno

Hirokazu Suzuki

Manabu Nagao

Osamu Nishiyama

Noriyuki Komamura

Yoshikuni Matsumura

Koji Ueno

Kazuo Sumita

Tetsuya Sakai

Mika Fukui

Seiji Miike

Hideo Umeki

Akira Kumano

Tatsuya Uehara

Kouichi Sasaki

Yasuko Nakayama

Keisuke Nishimura

Sogo Tsuboi

Masahiro Kajiura

Osamu Nisiyama

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, 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

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 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.

Apparatus and method for clustering speakers, and a non-transitory computer readable medium thereof

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

An information processing apparatus is connected with at least one external apparatus via a network. An input image of a first user related to the information processing apparatus is accepted while displaying a plurality of target images on a display. The plurality of target images includes an image of a second user related to the external apparatus. A gaze of the first user is detected from the input image. A target image looked by the first user is recognized from the plurality of target images, based on the gaze. A first head model as a head model of the first user, and a first texture to be projected onto the first head model, are generated. A first ID to identify a subject of the target image, the first head model and the first texture, are transmitted to the external apparatus.

Information processing apparatus and network conference system

A document managing apparatus includes a determining unit which determines whether a document print image can be generated or not when the document is entered in file managing information in which a data file is entered, the data file constituting the document which is a managing target, a print image generating unit which generates the document print image when the determining unit determines that the document print image can be generated, the document print image being entered as the file in the file managing information, an application start-up unit which starts up an application program according to the document when the determining unit determines that the document print image cannot be generated, and a screen dump generating unit which generates a screen dump of the document entered as the file in the information based on the document displayed on a display unit by the application program started.

Apparatus for searching stored documents

Image data for printing corresponding to document data of all pages of each stored document file is produced in a vector form. Image data for printing corresponding to document data of a representative page of each stored document file is produced in a bitmap form. Moreover, each produced bitmap-form image data for printing is displayed while successively switched every document unit. Furthermore, each of the produced bitmap-form and vector-form image data for printing is displayed while successively switched every page unit.

Document file management apparatus, document file management method, and document file management program

Document managing apparatus

Editing contents for the editing-object document selected from the plural documents that are inputted from the terminal devices connected to the network and that can be owned jointly via the network and corresponding message sentences for the editing contents are received, and a new renewed document is prepared by renewing the editing-object document on the basis of the editing contents, while extracting the renewed contents of the editing-object document by comparing the editing-object documents before and after the renewal with each other, storing at least the renewed contents as the history concerning the renewal of the editing-object document after preparing the contents correspondence with the message sentences, and displaying the renewed contents with the message sentences at a request by the user on the terminal device that sent the request.

Document management method and document management device

The present invention is a device and method for filtering information, the device comprising a document database storing document data to be filtered, a reproduced document information storing unit storing fundamental document data used for detection of documents, newly created or updated, a detecting unit for detecting a document, newly created or updated, among document data stored in the document database based on document data stored in the document database and the fundamental document data stored in the reproduced document information storing unit, a similarity computing unit for computing a similarity between the detected document detected by the detecting unit and a retrieval condition set in advance, and a presenting unit for presenting detected documents detected by the detecting unit according to the similarities computed by the similarity computing unit.

Device and method for filtering information, device and method for

The GUI edition aiding apparatus is for editing a display screen that a computer application program provides. In this apparatus, predetermined data that composes display parts is input. In addition, a selecting command for selecting a first display part from the display parts displayed on the display screen is issued. Moreover, a converting command for converting the first display part is issued. Thus, the first display part is converted into a desired second display part corresponding to a display state of the GUI. With the apparatus, GUI parts can be easily selected corresponding to the display state of the GUI. Thus, a user-friendly GUI can be effectively edited.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Nobuhiro Shimogori