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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1996
Miyuki Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroaki Ogawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiko Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuya Kagami, Chiba, JP;
Masao Watari, Ibaragi, JP;
Makoto Akabane, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuo Ishii, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuharu Asano, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Kakuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A translation apparatus and a translation method arranged to facilitate the operation of inputting a speech and to obtain a correct translation. When a speech in Japanese is input to a microphone by a user, it is recognized in a speech recognition section and one or more words constituting the speech are output to a system control section. The system control section searches Japanese sentences stored in a first language sentence storage section to find one of them most similar to a combination of one or more words output from the speech recognition section. The Japanese sentence thereby found is output through an output section. If this Japanese sentence is correct, the user operates one of control keys. The system control section then searches English sentences stored in a second language sentence storage section to find one of them corresponding to a translation of the Japanese sentence output as a search result, and outputs the English sentence thereby found through the output section.