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Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012

Filed:

Apr. 01, 2008
Applicants:

Toshiyuki Hanazawa, Tokyo, JP;

Youhei Okato, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Toshiyuki Hanazawa, Tokyo, JP;

Youhei Okato, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/18 (2006.01); G10L 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A text data search using a voice is conventionally a full-text search using a word as an index word for a part recognized as a word in an input voice. Therefore, if any of the parts recognized as the words is falsely recognized, a search precision is lowered. In the present invention, referring to a language model generated by a language model generating part from text data to be subjected to a search which is divided by a learning data dividing part into a linguistic part and an acoustic model obtained by modeling voice features, a voice recognition part performs voice recognition for the input voice to output a phonemic representation. A matching unit converting part divides the phonemic representation into the same units as those of a text search dictionary, which is obtained by dividing the text data to be subjected to the search into the units smaller than those of the language model. A text search part uses the result of division to make a search on the text search dictionary.


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