Speech translation system, dictionary server, and program

Abstract

A conventional speech recognition dictionary, translation dictionary and speech synthesis dictionary used in speech translation have inconsistencies. Inconsistency among dictionaries can be solved with a dictionary server including an all-language group dictionary storage unit capable of having stored therein, for two or more languages, two or more all-language term information pieces for speech recognition, translation and speech synthesis, an information-for-speech-recognition sending unit that acquires information for speech recognition including speech recognition information of a term for all languages, and sends the information to one or more speech recognition servers, an information-for-translation sending unit that acquires information for translation including the written form of the term for all languages, and sends the information to one or more translation servers, and an information-for-speech-synthesis sending unit that acquires information for speech synthesis including speech synthesis information of a term for all languages, and sends the information to one or more speech synthesis servers.