Patent Document ID: 8635070
Application ID: 13071549

Base Claim:
1. A speech translation apparatus comprising: a computer or other programmable apparatus programmed to cause: a receiving unit to receive a speech in a first language and convert the speech to a speech signal; a first recognition unit to perform a speech recognition of the speech signal and generate a transcription of the speech signal, the transcription including one or more raw words or one or more raw phrases in the first language, the raw words and the raw phrases being affected by an speaker's emotion; a second recognition unit to recognize which emotion type is included in the speech using at least one of the transcription and the speech signal and to generate emotion identification information item including at least one recognized emotion type; a first generation unit to generate a filtered sentence by transforming the one or more raw words or the one or more raw phrases into one or more filtered words or one or more filtered phrases in the first language by referring to a first model that corresponds the raw words and the raw phrases to the filtered words and the filtered phrases, the filtered words and the filtered phrases failing to be affected by the speaker's emotion; a translation unit to generate a translation of the filtered sentence in the first language into a second language which is different from the first language; a second generation unit to generate an insertion sentence explaining the recognized emotion type in the second language; and a synthesis unit to convert the filtered sentence and the insertion sentence into a speech signal.

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Claim 9:
9. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the computer or other programmable apparatus is further programmed to cause a sentence transformation table to store the first model.