296 results about "Speech translation" patented technology

A method and apparatus are provided for updating the vocabulary of a speech translation system for translating a first language into a second language including written and spoken words. The method includes adding a new word in the first language to a first recognition lexicon of the first language and associating a description with the new word, wherein the description contains pronunciation and word class information. The new word and description are then updated in a first machine translation module associated with the first language. The first machine translation module contains a first tagging module, a first translation model and a first language module, and is configured to translate the new word to a corresponding translated word in the second language. Optionally, the invention may be used for bidirectional or multi-directional translation.

A translation device which has both advantages of a table look-up translation device and advantages of a machine translation device by leading the user's utterance through a sentence template suitable for the user's intent of speech is realized. Since the translation device searches for sentence templates suitable for the user's intent of speech with an orally inputted keyword and displays retrieved sentences, the user's utterance can be lead. In addition, the user is free from a troublesome manipulation for replacing a word since an expression uttered by the user is inserted into a replaceable portion (slot) within the sentence template, and the translation device translates a resulting sentence with the replaced expression embedded in the slot.

A real-time networked telephony or computer system has a feature complex and / or applications that offer a class of features to a subscriber, including call information, and permits the subscriber to manage incoming and existing calls through available features accessed using spoken utterances. A speech processing unit coupled to the system interprets a subscriber's spoken utterances without requiring the subscriber to train the system to recognize his or her voice. The interpretation of spoken utterances is enabled by a system state database that is maintained at the speech processing unit and comprises a database of the possible system slates, including possible call flows for a call, and a database associated with the system state database comprising context-specific grammar that a subscriber may recite at respective points in the call flow. The speech processing unit may also convert message signals from the network to speech which is read to the subscriber using a text to speech translator. The network can identify the voice or subscriber voice, or language used and will thereafter recognize all further commands using specific grammar for that language as well as perform text-to-speech conversion using the identified language. Use of the features can be applied to update of grammars, profiles and templates, etc. by transmitting results of transactions.

The present invention provides a speech sound translating method and apparatus, according to one aspect of the invention, provided is a speech sound translating method, comprising: recognizing the speech sound as a text which has at least one long sentence comprising a plurality of single sentences; cutting at least one long sentence into a plurality of single sentences; translating each of a plurality of single sentences into a sentence of target language kind. The invention can insert a long sentence cutting module between a speech sound recognition module and a machine translation module, can recognize the long sentence in the text and can automatically cut the long sentences into a plurality of simple and complete single sentences, thereby reducing the difficulty of the machine translation and improving the quality of the machine translation. Moreover, the invention also provides an interface interactive with the user, enables the user to conveniently modify the automatic cutting result, meanwhile, the modifying operation of the user is recorded for updating the cutting model in real time, and the automatic cutting effect is improved continuously.