Patent ID: 7050979
Filing Date: 2006-05-23
Classification: G06F,G10L

Abstract:
1. A speech converting device comprising: speech inputting means of inputting speech of one sentence including plural words of a first language; speech recognizing means of recognizing said input speech; first extracting/displaying means of extracting and displaying examples which are one or plural word strings of said first language, said examples corresponding to a result of said speech recognition and based on a correspondence between said examples and a second language; conversion object selecting means of, from said displayed examples, selecting one of said examples which is expected to become an object of conversion to said second language; screen display specifying means of specifying at least a part of said selected example by manually highlighting said at least said part of said selected example; second extracting/displaying means of, when said at least said part of said selected example is specified, extracting and displaying candidates of a class from a database free of a speech input which corresponds to contents of said specified at least said part of said selected example; candidate selecting means of selecting words of the same class out of said displayed candidates; and converting means of determining said object of conversion to said second language on the basis of said selected example and said selected words of the same class, and of converting said determined conversion object to a speech language of said second language.