Title:
VOICE INPUT INTERPRETING DEVICE AND VOICE INPUT INTERPRETING METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3472101
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a device capable of interpreting an input voice so that an application part can operate properly even when a user does not remember a word or a sentence, which is to be uttered correctly, by detecting a part in which one part of normal vocabularies is replacedly expressed from the input voice and replacing the detected part with the normal expression corresponding to the part.
SOLUTION: This device detects a part in which one part of normal vocabularies is replacedly expressed from the input voice to replace this part with a normal expression corresponding to this part. In this device, a vocabulary storage 102 is connected to a voice analyzing part 101 and stores information as to vocabularies in which one parts of normal vocabularies are replaced with wild card expressions being expressions to be replaced with arbitrary plural words such as, for example, 'some', 'ra, ra, ra'. In this device, even through the user does not remember, for example, the name named 'TOKYO stay-in hotel' correctly and when the user performs a voice input as 'TOKYO ra, ra, ra hotel' by using a wild card expression, information can be outputted to the application part by interpreting the name of the voice input to a proper name.
Inventors:
Takehide Yano
Tetsuro Chino
Yasuyuki Kawano
Tetsuro Chino
Yasuyuki Kawano
Application Number:
JP25244697A
Publication Date:
December 02, 2003
Filing Date:
September 17, 1997
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Toshiba Corporation
International Classes:
G10L15/20; G10L13/06; G10L15/06; G10L15/10; G10L15/18; G10L17/08; G10L17/26; G10L25/90; (IPC1-7): G10L15/28; G10L13/06; G10L15/10; G10L15/20
Domestic Patent References:
| JP863185A | ||||
| JP7271822A | ||||
| JP10222337A | ||||
| JP9293083A | ||||
| JP8123818A | ||||
| JP312891A |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takehiko Suzue (6 outside)