Title:
SPEECH TRANSLATION SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2011/048826
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
In speech translation, it has been impossible to select appropriate processing results and to select appropriate apparatuses. Provided is a control apparatus configured to: receive a speech recognition processing result, which contains a speech recognition result and a speech recognition score, from each of two or more speech recognition apparatuses; select the most probable one of the speech recognition results by using the speech recognition scores; transmit the thus selected speech recognition result to two or more translation apparatuses; receive a translation processing result, which contains a translation result and a translation score for the speech recognition result, from each of the two or more translation apparatuses; select the most probable one of the translation results by using the translation scores; transmit the thus selected translation result to two or more speech synthesis apparatuses; receive a speech synthesis processing result, which contains a speech synthesis result and a speech synthesis score, from each of the two or more speech synthesis apparatuses; select one of the speech synthesis results by using the speech synthesis scores; and transmit the thus selected speech synthesis result to a second terminal apparatus. Use of the control apparatus makes it possible to select appropriate processing results and to select appropriate apparatuses.
Inventors:
NAKAMURA SATOSHI (JP)
SUMITA EIICHIRO (JP)
ASHIKARI YUTAKA (JP)
KIMURA NORIYUKI (JP)
HORI CHIORI (JP)
SUMITA EIICHIRO (JP)
ASHIKARI YUTAKA (JP)
KIMURA NORIYUKI (JP)
HORI CHIORI (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2010/053420
Publication Date:
April 28, 2011
Filing Date:
March 03, 2010
Export Citation:
Assignee:
NAT INST INF & COMM TECH (JP)
NAKAMURA SATOSHI (JP)
SUMITA EIICHIRO (JP)
ASHIKARI YUTAKA (JP)
KIMURA NORIYUKI (JP)
HORI CHIORI (JP)
NAKAMURA SATOSHI (JP)
SUMITA EIICHIRO (JP)
ASHIKARI YUTAKA (JP)
KIMURA NORIYUKI (JP)
HORI CHIORI (JP)
International Classes:
G10L15/10; G06F3/16; G06F17/28; G10L13/00; G10L15/00; G10L15/30; G10L15/32
Foreign References:
| JP2000148176A | 2000-05-26 | |||
| JP2005031758A | 2005-02-03 | |||
| JP2008243080A | 2008-10-09 | |||
| JP2009140503A | 2009-06-25 |
Other References:
See also references of EP 2492910A4
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
TANIGAWA, HIDEKAZU (JP)
Mountain stream English-Japanese (JP)
Mountain stream English-Japanese (JP)
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