Information processing apparatus and data input method
First Claim
1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
- prediction means for predicting at least one character candidate which follows at least one input character;
display control means for controlling displaying said at least one character candidate predicted by said prediction means;
speech recognition means for performing speech recognition for input speech using said at least one displayed character candidate as a word to be recognized; and
confirmation means for confirming, as at least one character to be used, at least one character serving as a recognition result obtained by the speech recognition means.
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Abstract
More comfortable data input is implemented by using speech recognition and a character prediction function in combination. For example, according to a data input method of this invention, character string candidates which follow a character string input by a character string input device are predicted (S402), and the predicted character string candidates are displayed on a display device (S403). Speech recognition is performed for speech input by the speech input device using the character string candidates displayed on the display device as words to be recognized (S411), and a character string serving as the recognition result is confirmed as a character string to be used (S412).
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10 Claims
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1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
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prediction means for predicting at least one character candidate which follows at least one input character;
display control means for controlling displaying said at least one character candidate predicted by said prediction means;
speech recognition means for performing speech recognition for input speech using said at least one displayed character candidate as a word to be recognized; and
confirmation means for confirming, as at least one character to be used, at least one character serving as a recognition result obtained by the speech recognition means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A data input method in an information processing apparatus, comprising:
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a prediction step of predicting at least one character candidate which follows at least one character input by a character input device;
a display control step of controlling displaying said at least one character candidate predicted in the prediction step on a display device;
a speech recognition step of performing speech recognition for speech input by a speech input device using said at least one character candidate displayed on the display device as a word to be recognized; and
a confirmation step of confirming, as at least one character to be used, at least one character serving as a recognition result obtained in the speech recognition step. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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9. A program executed by a computer, comprising codes of:
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a prediction step of predicting at least one character candidate which follows at least one character input by a character input device;
a display control step of controlling displaying said at least one character candidate predicted in the prediction step on a display device;
a speech recognition step of performing speech recognition for speech input by a speech input device using said at least one character candidate displayed on the display device as a word to be recognized; and
a confirmation step of confirming, as at least one character to be used, at least one character serving as a recognition result obtained in the speech recognition step. - View Dependent Claims (10)
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