Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Satoshi Kamatani

Tetsuro Chino

Kazuo Sumita

Kentaro Furihata

Akiko Sakamoto

Akinori Kawamura

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Takashi Masuko

Hirokazu Suzuki

Nayuko Watanabe

Hisayoshi Nagae

Yuka Kuroda

Michiaki Ariga

Tetsuo Chino

According to one embodiment, a simultaneous speech processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a speech recognition unit, a detection unit and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires a speech signal. The speech recognition unit generates a decided character string and at least one candidate character string. The detection unit detects a first character string as a processing piece character string if the first character string included in the decided character string exists commonly in one or more combined character strings on dividing the one or more combined character strings by a boundary indicating a morphological position serving as a start position of a processing piece in natural language processing. The output unit outputs the processing piece character string.

Simultaneous speech processing apparatus and method

According to one embodiment, a speech translation apparatus includes a speech recognizer, a detector, a machine translator and a controller. The speech recognizer performs a speech recognition processing in chronological order on utterances of at least one first language made by a plurality of speakers to obtain a recognition text as a speech recognition result. The detector detects segments of meaning of the recognition text to obtain segments of text. The machine translator translates the segments of text into a second language different from the first language to obtain translated texts. The controller controls, if an utterance overlaps with another utterance in the chronological order, an order of displaying the translated texts corresponding to the overlapped utterances.

Speech translation apparatus and method

According to one embodiment, an interpretation apparatus includes a translator, a calculator and a generator. The translator performs machine translation on a speech recognition result corresponding to an input speech audio from a first language into a second language to generate a machine translation result. The calculator calculates a word number based on a first time when the machine translation result is generated and a second time when output relating to a prior machine translation result generated prior to the machine translation result ends, the word number being 0 or larger. The generator omits at least the word number of words from the machine translation result to generate an abridged sentence output while being associated with the speech audio.

Interpretation apparatus and method

According to one embodiment, a speech translation system includes a first terminal device including a first speech input unit for inputting a first speech of a first language spoken by a first user, and converting the first speech to a first speech signal; a second terminal device including a second speech input unit for inputting a second speech of a second language spoken by a second user, and converting the second speech to a second speech signal; a speech recognition device that receives the first speech signal and the second speech signal, recognizes the first speech signal to a first recognized text, and recognizes the second speech signal to a second recognized text; a machine translation device that receives the first recognized text and the second recognized text, translates the first recognized text to a first translated text of the second language, and translates the second recognized text to a second translated text of the first language; and a control device; wherein the first terminal device receives (a) a first text set of the first language being the first recognized text and the second translated text, and (b) a second text set of the second language being the second recognized text and the first translated text, and includes a first display unit that displays the first text set and the second text set; and the second terminal device receives at least one text of the second text set, and includes a second display unit that displays the at least one text of the second text set.

Systems, method and program product for speech translation

A first speech processing device includes a first speech input unit and a first speech output unit. A second speech processing device includes a second speech input unit and a second speech output unit. In a server therebetween, a speech of a first language sent from the first speech input unit is recognized. The speech recognition result is translated into a second language. The translation result is back translated into the first language. A first speech synthesis signal of the back translation result is sent to the first speech output unit. A second speech synthesis signal of the translation result is sent to the second speech output unit. Duration of the second speech synthesis signal or the first speech synthesis signal is measured. The first speech synthesis signal and the second speech synthesis signal are outputted by synchronizing a start time and an end time thereof, based on the duration.

Speech translation apparatus, speech translation method, and non-transitory computer readable medium thereof

According to one embodiment, a voice conversation support apparatus includes an input unit, a first determination unit, a second determination unit, a third determination unit, and a scoring unit. The input unit accepts a text data input according to a voice input mode and another input mode. The first determination unit extracts at least one subject keyword representing a current subject from the text data input. The second determination unit estimates a category of a word that can be an answer. The third determination unit calculates a question pair likelihood. The scoring unit calculates a score about a priority of each input mode.

Voice conversation support apparatus, voice conversation support method, and computer readable medium

According to one embodiment, a speech of a first language is recognized using a speech recognition dictionary to recognize the first language and a second language, and a source sentence of the first language is generated. The source sentence is translated into a second language, and a translation sentence of the second language is generated. An unknown word included in the translation sentence is detected. The unknown word is not stored in the speech recognition dictionary. A first pronunciation candidate of the unknown word is estimated, from a representation of the unknown word. A second pronunciation candidate of the unknown word is estimated from a pronunciation of an original word included in the source sentence corresponding to the unknown word. The unknown word, the first pronunciation candidate and the second pronunciation candidate, are registered into the speech recognition dictionary correspondingly.

A first speech input device captures a speech of a first language. A first speech output device outputs another speech of the first language. A second speech input device captures a speech of a second language. A second speech output device outputs another speech of the second language. In a speech recognition/translation server, a first speech recognition device receives a first utterance speech of the first language from the first speech input device, and recognizes the first utterance speech. A first machine translation device consecutively translates the first language of the recognition result into the second language without waiting completion of the first utterance speech. A first speech synthesis device generates a second speech of the translation result. A first output adjustment device outputs the first utterance speech and the second speech to the second speech output device by adjusting a volume of the first utterance speech to be smaller than a volume of the second speech.

System and method for translating speech, and non-transitory computer readable medium thereof

According to one embodiment, a machine translation apparatus includes an input device which inputs a first language sentence; an additional information acquisition unit which acquires a first user or a current location of the first language sentence as a first additional information; a reference data storage device which stores second language reference data that are the relationships between second language sentences and at least one of a second user and a second user usage location of the second language sentences as a second additional information; a text data acquisition unit which acquire second language text data from the second language reference data including second additional information being the same at least one part of the first additional information; and a translation unit which translates the first language sentence to a second language sentence by using the second language text data.

Machine translation apparatus, machine translation method and computer program product for machine translation

According to one embodiment, a speech translation apparatus includes a first input unit configured to input a first speech of a first speaker; a second input unit configured to input a second speech of a second speaker that is different from the first speaker; a first translation unit configured to translate the first speech to a first target language sentence; a second translation unit configured to translate the second speech to a second target language sentence; a first output unit configured to output the first target language sentence; a second output unit configured to output the second target language sentence; a speech detecting unit configured to detect a first speech duration from the first speech and detect a second speech duration from the second speech; and an output timing adjustment unit configured to adjust at least one of the first output unit and the second output unit, when the first speech duration and the second speech duration overlap each other.

Speech translation apparatus, speech translation method and program product for speech translation

According to one embodiment, a machine translation apparatus includes a speech recognition unit, a translation unit, a detection unit and an addition unit. The speech recognition unit performs speech recognition of speech. The translation unit translates the plurality of source language strings into target language strings in a chronological order. The detection unit detects ambiguity in interpretation of the speech corresponding to a first target language string of the target language strings. The addition unit adds, an additional phrase being one of words and phrases to interpret uniquely a modification relationship, to the first target language string if ambiguity is detected.

Machine translation apparatus, method and computer readable medium

According to one embodiment, a speech translation apparatus includes a speech recognition unit, a translation unit, a search unit and a selection unit. The speech recognition unit successively performs speech recognition to obtain a first language word string. The translation unit translates the first language word string into a second language word string. The search unit search for at least one similar example and acquires the similar example and a translation example. The selection unit selects, in accordance with a user instruction, at least one of the first language word string associated with the similar example and the second language word string associated with the translation example, as a selected word string.

Speech translation apparatus, method and program

An analyzing unit performs a morphological analysis of an input character string that is obtained by processing input speech. A generating unit divides the input character string in units of division previously decided, that is composed of one or plural morphemes, and generates partial character strings including part of components of the divided input character string. A candidate output unit outputs the generated partial character strings to a display unit. A selection receiving unit receives a partial character string selected from the outputted partial character strings as a target to be processed.

Apparatus, method, and computer program product for processing input speech

In a machine-translation apparatus, an example storage unit stores therein target language examples in a target language and source language examples in a source language, while keeping the target language examples and the source language examples in correspondence with one another. An input receiving unit receives an input sentence in the source language. A searching unit conducts a search in the example storage unit for one of the target language examples corresponding to one of the source language examples that either matches or is similar to the input sentence. A translating unit generates a reverse-translated sentence by translating the one of the target language examples found in the search into the source language. A detecting unit detects a difference portion between the reverse-translated sentence and the input sentence. An output unit outputs the difference portion.

Apparatus and method for machine translation

An input apparatus which presents examples suitable to users, including an example storage module to store a plurality of example expressions; an edit storage module to store edits when a user edits the plurality of example expressions; a presentation example determining module to determine one or more presentation examples to be presented to the user from the plurality of example expressions stored in the example storage module; an edit adapting module to edit the presentation examples determined by the presentation example determining module based on the edits stored in the edit storage module; a display control module to present the presentation examples determined by the presentation example determining module to the user; and an entry accepting module to accept one of the presentation examples as a selected example when one of the presentation examples is selected by the user, or to receive edits from the user to one of the presentation examples and accept the edited presentation example as the selected example.

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Satoshi Kamatani