Patent ID: 7219050

Claim:
An automatic interpreting system comprising: an inputting device that receives an input utterance; an interpreting device that recognizes the input utterance and interprets the input utterance into a specified language; an outputting device that outputs interpretation results; a conversation history managing unit that determines the validity of the interpretation result of the input utterance to obtain interpretation reliability, allows the receiving-side speaker to input as the level of interpretation understanding how well said receiving-speaker can grasp the meaning of the interpretation result, and records and stores, as interpretation history information, said level of interpretation reliability and said level of interpretation understanding for each said utterance; and a conversation status determination processing unit that, if the interpretation of an utterance is not understandable to the receiving party, determines the conversation status, based on said interpretation reliability and said interpretation understanding, for said utterance and a previous utterance, which are stored in said conversation history managing unit.