Patent ID: 6148105
Filing Date: 2000-11-14
Classification: G06F,G06K,G10L

Abstract:
A voice recognizing and translating system for recognizing a voice and translating the voice into words or sentences, comprising:an acoustic model generation unit which generates an acoustic model, and a recognizing and translating unit which recognizes and translates a voice using the acoustic model, wherein,a) said acoustic model generation unit comprises:a first noise deletion unit which removes noise data corresponding to noise from voice data representing a voice for an acoustic model;a first sound analysis unit which extracts a feature of the voice corresponding to the voice data from which the noise data is removed by the first noise deletion unit;a model learning unit which creates an acoustic model from the feature of the voice extracted by said first sound analysis unit; andan acoustic model storing unit which stores the acoustic model created by the model learning unit in connection with the noise removed from the voice data by the first noise deletion unit; andb) said recognizing and translating unit comprises:a second noise deletion unit which removes noise data corresponding to noise from voice data representing a voice to be translated;a second sound analysis unit which extracts a feature of the voice corresponding to the voice data from which the noise data is removed by the second noise deletion unit;a voice collating unit which selects one acoustic model from said acoustic model storing unit based on the noise data removed from the voice data by the second noise deletion unit, and collates the feature of the voice extracted by said second sound analysis unit with the selected acoustic model to recognize the voice; anda translation unit which translates words or sentences which are composed of the voice recognized by said voice collating unit.