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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2010
Yueyan Yin, Beijing, CN;
Yaojie LU, Beijing, CN;
Dafei Shi, Beijing, CN;
Jichuan Zheng, Beijing, CN;
Lijun Zhao, Beijing, CN;
Yueyan Yin, Beijing, CN;
Yaojie Lu, Beijing, CN;
Dafei Shi, Beijing, CN;
Jichuan Zheng, Beijing, CN;
Lijun Zhao, Beijing, CN;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed are a speech retrieval apparatus and a speech retrieval method for searching, in an audio file database, for one or more target audio files by using one or more input search terms. The speech retrieval apparatus comprises a related document obtaining unit configured to search, in a related document database where documents related to audio files in the audio file database are stored, for one or more related documents by using the search terms; a correspondence audio file obtaining unit configured to search, in the audio file database, for one or more correspondence audio files corresponding to the obtained related documents; and a speech-to-speech search unit configured to search, in the audio file database, for the target audio files by using the obtained correspondence audio files.