Voice operation device

• US 20050102141A1
• Filed: 10/18/2004
• Published: 05/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Chikuri, Takayoshi
• Application Number:
  US10/965,866
• Publication Number:
  US 20050102141A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/244
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/06 Creation of reference templates; Training of speech recognition systems, e.g. adaptation to the characteristics of the speaker's voice G10L15/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/183 using context dependencies, e.g. language models
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/0631 Creating reference templates; Clustering

Abstract

Voice operation device includes: voice recognition dictionary for storing plurality of groups of synonyms provided for plurality of functions of devices to be operated and each includes at least one word; voice recognition unit that checks voice data from voice taking unit against words stored in voice recognition dictionary to recognize word corresponding to voice; device control unit that controls devices to be operated based on word recognized by voice recognition unit; recognition history storage unit that sequentially stores words recognized by voice recognition unit; and dictionary update unit that updates voice recognition dictionary in such way that words which are determined to have been recognized at low frequencies in the past, based on recognition history stored in recognition history storage unit, are deleted except at least one of word which is left in each group of plurality of groups of synonyms in order to be checked.

Claims

1. A voice operation device comprising:

a voice taking unit that takes in voice;

a voice recognition dictionary for storing a plurality of groups of synonyms which are provided for a plurality of functions of a device to be operated and each of which includes at least one word;

a voice recognition unit that checks voice data taken in by the voice taking unit against the words stored in the voice recognition dictionary to recognize a word corresponding to the voice;

a device control unit that controls the device to be operated on the basis of the word recognized by the voice recognition unit;

a recognition history storage unit that sequentially stores the words recognized by the voice recognition unit as recognition history; and

a dictionary update unit that updates the voice recognition dictionary in such a way that words which are determined to have been recognized at low frequencies in the past on the basis of the recognition history stored in the recognition history storage unit, are deleted except at least one of the word which is left in each group of the plurality of groups of synonyms in order to be checked.

2. The voice operation device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the dictionary update unit comprises:

a count block that counts a number of usages of each of the plurality of functions and a number of recognitions of the words belonging to each of the plurality of functions on the basis of the recognition history stored in the recognition history storage unit;

a selection block that selects a word, which belongs to a function in which a number of usages, counted by the count block, is not less than a predetermined value and in which a number of recognitions, counted by the count block, is not more than another predetermined value, as a word to be deleted;

a withdrawal block that, as for a function in which all of the words belonging to the function are selected as words to be deleted by the selection block, withdraws at least one word belonging to the function from word to be deleted; and

a change block that deletes the word which is left as the word to be deleted after withdrawal performed by the withdrawal block, from the voice recognition dictionary in order to update the voice recognition dictionary.

3. The voice operation device as claimed in claim 2, wherein, as for a function in which all of the words are selected as the words to be deleted by the selection block, the withdraw unit withdraws all of the words belonging to the function from the words to be deleted.