Patent ID: 8214197
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: G06F,G10L

Abstract:
1. A machine translation apparatus comprising: a document receiving unit configured to receive an input of a source language document described in a source language; a first translating unit configured to translate the source language document into a translated document described in a target language in a first translation process, and to identify a document ambiguous portion that is a word or a sentence, for which a plurality of candidate translations occurs during the first translation process; a storing unit configured to store the translated document and the document ambiguous portion; a speech receiving unit configured to receive a speech in the source language; a recognition unit configured to recognize the speech received by the speech receiving unit and to create text of a source language speech sentence as a recognition result; a second translating unit configured to translate the text of the source language speech sentence into the target language; an extracting unit configured to extract a source language document sentence relating to the source language speech sentence from the source language document; an updating unit configured to: a display control unit configured to display the updated translated document on a display unit.