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Patent Searching and Data


Title:
SEARCH DEVICE, SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2011/068170
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
Disclosed are a search device, a search method, and a program, with which a string of words corresponding to input speech can be searched for robustly. The disclosed search device includes: a speech recognition section (11) for performing speech recognition on input speech; a matching section (16) for matching, for each of a plurality of search-result-candidate word strings each being a string of words that may become the result of a search for the string of words corresponding to the input speech, between a search-result-candidate phonetic-symbol string, which is a sequence of phonetic symbols representing the pronunciation of a search-result-candidate word string, and a recognition-result phonetic-symbol string, which is a sequence of phonetic symbols representing the pronunciation of the result of the speech recognition performed on the input speech; and an outputting section (17) for outputting a search-result word string, which is the result of a search for the string of words corresponding to the input speech from the plurality of search-result-candidate word strings, based on the result of the matching between the search-result-candidate phonetic-symbol strings and the recognition-result phonetic-symbol string. The disclosed search device can be applied to voice searches, for example.

Inventors:
HONDA Hitoshi (1-7-1 Konan, Minato-k, Tokyo 75, 〒1080075, JP)
本田 等 (〒75 東京都港区港南1丁目7番1号 ソニー株式会社内 Tokyo, 〒1080075, JP)
MAEDA Yoshinori (1-7-1 Konan, Minato-k, Tokyo 75, 〒1080075, JP)
Application Number:
JP2010/071605
Publication Date:
June 09, 2011
Filing Date:
December 02, 2010
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Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION (1-7-1, Konan Minato-ku Tokyo, 75, 〒1080075, JP)
ソニー株式会社 (〒75 東京都港区港南1丁目7番1号 Tokyo, 〒1080075, JP)
HONDA Hitoshi (1-7-1 Konan, Minato-k, Tokyo 75, 〒1080075, JP)
本田 等 (〒75 東京都港区港南1丁目7番1号 ソニー株式会社内 Tokyo, 〒1080075, JP)
International Classes:
G06F17/30; G10L15/18
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
INAMOTO Yoshio et al. (711 Building 4F, 11-18 Nishi-Shinjuku 7-chome, Shinjuku-k, Tokyo 23, 〒1600023, JP)
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