Patent Document ID: 9002698
Application ID: 13859152

Base Claim:
1. A speech translation apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire speech in a first language as a speech signal; a speech recognition unit configured to successively perform speech recognition on the speech signal to obtain a first language word string which is a result of the speech recognition; a translation unit configured to translate the first language word string into a second language to obtain a second language word string which is a result of translation; a search unit configured to search for at least one similar example for each first language word string, and, if there is the similar example, to acquire the similar example and a translation example which is a result of the translation of the similar example in the second language, the similar example indicating a word string that is similar to the first language word string in the first language; a selection unit configured to select, in accordance with a user instruction, at least one of the first language word string associated with the similar example and the second language word string associated with the translation example, as a selected word string; and a presentation unit configured to present one or more similar examples and one or more translation examples associated with the selected word string.

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Claim 2:
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a display configured to display each of the first language word string and the similar example, and the second language word string and the translation example, wherein the presentation unit causes the display to display a first icon indicating that there is an example associated with the first language word string and corresponding second language word string, if the first language word string has a similar example.