To specify a scene where a desired performer appears based only on a received video picture.
The personal name assignment apparatus includes: a means 103 for obtaining a speaker time period as a first section including a speaker name specified by information indicating the speaker name and an utterance time period of the speaker; a means 101 for obtaining a second section including an utterance from a non-silent section in the video picture; a means 105 for extracting a first feature amount characterizing the speaker from a speech waveform of the second section when the second section is included in the first section and associating the speaker name corresponding to the first section with the feature amount; a means 106 for creating a speaker model of the speaker from the feature amount for each speaker; a means 108 for obtaining a third section that is an utterance time period to be recognized; a means 109 for extracting a second feature amount characterizing the speaker from a speech waveform of the second section when the second section is included in the third section; a means 110 for calculating similarity between the feature amount of the speaker model for each speaker and the second feature amount; and a means 111 for recognizing the speaker name of the speaker model of a setting condition as the performer, in the similarity.
UEHARA TATSUYA
Kurata Masatoshi
Satoshi Kono
Makoto Nakamura
Yoshihiro Fukuhara
Takashi Mine
Toshio Shirane
Sadao Muramatsu
Nobuhisa Nogawa
Kocho Chojiro
Naoki Kono
Katsu Sunagawa
Katsumura Hiro
Ryo Hashimoto
Tetsuya Kazama
Shoji Kawai
Tatsushi Sato
Takashi Okada
Mihoko Horiuchi
Takenori Masanori
Takuzo Ichihara
Yamashita Gen