Patent ID: 7729917
Filing Date: 2010-06-01
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A method of correcting character strings for a unit of speech in a presentation in real time and for displaying as a caption, the method comprising steps of: recognizing the unit of speech in the presentation, and then outputting, as a result of the speech recognition, one or a plurality of texts of character string candidates and confidence factors of the speech recognition which correspond to the respective character string candidates; selecting between automatic judgment and manual judgment for the unit of speech, the selecting comprising: in response to selecting automatic judgment, automatically judging whether to confirm the first character string candidate as a confirmed character string; in response to selecting manual judgment, outputting the speech and the character string candidates to a checker and determining whether to confirm a character string out of the character string candidates as a confirmed character string based on an instruction accepted from the checker; and displaying the confirmed character string as the caption.