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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2005
Masahide Ariu, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichi Tanaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Masuko, Kanagawa, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A speech recognition apparatus includes a sound information acquiring unit that acquires sound information, a unit segment dividing unit that divides the sound information into plural unit segments, a segment information acquiring unit that acquires segment information that indicates a feature of each unit segment, a segment relation value calculating unit that calculates a segment relation value that indicates a relative feature of a target segment which is a unit segment to be processed with respect to an adjacent segment which is a unit segment adjacent to the target segment, based on segment information of the target segment and segment information of the adjacent segment among the segment information, a recognition candidate storing unit that stores recognition candidates that are targets of speech recognition, and a recognition result selecting unit that selects a recognition result from the recognition candidates stored in the recognition candidate storing unit utilizing the segment relation value.