Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Osamu Nishiyama

Tomoo Ikeda

Hirokazu Suzuki

Manabu Nagao

Kouji Ueno

Nobuhiro Shimogori

Kouta Nakata

Taira Ashikawa

Koji Ueno

Takehiko Kagoshima

Yorimasa Endo

Toshiki Fukushima

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

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.

Text generator, text generating method, and computer program product

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 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

An acquisition unit analyzes a text, and acquires phonemic and prosodic information. An editing unit edits a part of the phonemic and prosodic information. A speech synthesis unit converts the phonemic and prosodic information before editing the part to a first speech waveform, and converts the phonemic and prosodic information after editing the part to a second speech waveform. A period calculation unit calculates a contrast period corresponding to the part in the first speech waveform and the second speech waveform. A speech generation unit generates an output waveform by connecting a first partial waveform and a second partial waveform. The first partial waveform contains the contrast period of the first speech waveform. The second partial waveform contains the contrast period of the second speech waveform.

Apparatus and method for editing speech synthesis, and computer readable medium

According to one embodiment, a speech synthesizer generates a speech segment sequence and synthesizes speech by connecting speech segments of the generated speech segment sequence. If a speech segment of a synthesized first speech segment sequence is different from the speech segment of a synthesized second speech segment sequence having the same synthesis unit as the first speech segment sequence, the speech synthesizer disables the speech segment of the first speech segment sequence that is different from the speech segment of the second speech segment sequence.

Speech segment processor

A wide range monitor apparatus for the output from a nuclear reactor has a logarithmic count rate measuring circuit and a Campbel measuring circuit corresponding to different neutron flux density ranges of the neutron flux output from a neutron detector. The apparatus monitors the nuclear reactor output as a single output which has a linearity with the neutron flux density over a wide range thereof. A logic circuit combines two comparison discrimination signals obtained by comparing low and high comparison voltages corresponding to the hysteresis width in an overlap region of the outputs from the two measuring circuits with detection output voltages from the two measuring circuits. One of the outputs from the two measuring circuits is selected in accordance with the logical level signal obtained by combining the two comparison discrimination signals by the logic circuit.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Osamu Nishiyama