Patent ID: 7650283

Claim:
A dialogue supporting apparatus for recognizing a speech input in a source language and for presenting a translation of the input speech in a target language, the dialogue supporting apparatus comprising: a speech recognition unit operable to receive the speech input in the source language and to obtain a speech recognition result of the speech input, the speech recognition result being in the source language; a sample sentence search unit operable to search for and obtain a sample sentence in the source language based on a keyword included in the obtained speech recognition result; a sample sentence comparison unit operable to derive a keyword correspondence degree by comparing (i) a location of the keyword within the obtained sample sentence that is in the source language, and (ii) a location of the keyword within the speech recognition result that is in the source language, the keyword correspondence degree indicating a degree of correspondence between the location of the keyword within the obtained sample sentence and the location of the keyword within the speech recognition result; and a sample sentence display control unit operable to display the obtained sample sentence in the source language, and to highlight the keyword within the displayed sample sentence based on the derived keyword correspondence degree.