Sony Corporation

Satoshi Asakawa

Yoshinori Maeda

Katsuki Minamino

Atsuo Hiroe

Hitoshi Honda

The present invention relates to a searching device, searching method, and program whereby searching for a word string corresponding to input voice can be performed in a robust manner. A voice recognition unitsubjects an input voice to voice recognition. A matching unitperforms matching, for each of multiple word strings for search results which are word strings that are to be search results for word strings corresponding to the input voice, of a pronunciation symbol string for search results, which is an array of pronunciation symbols expressing pronunciation of the word string search result, and a recognition result pronunciation symbol string which is an array of pronunciation symbols expressing pronunciation of the voice recognition results of the input voice. An output unitoutputs a search result word string which is the result of searching the word strings corresponding to the input voice from the multiple word strings for search results, based on the matching results of the pronunciation symbol string for search results and the recognition result pronunciation symbol string. The present invention can be applied in the case of performing voice searching, for example.

Speech-based pronunciation symbol searching device, method and program using correction distance

An apparatus, method and program for performing a speech recognition process utilizing contextual information that comprises an estimation of the intention of an utterance of a user. The recognition process includes calculating a pre-score based on observed contextual information according intention models which correspond to a plurality of types of intention information and combining the pre-scoring results with acoustic and linguistic scores to obtain an improved recognition or comprehension of the intent of a user utterance.

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Tokyo, Japan

Satoshi Asakawa