Voice Recognition Program

• US 20080177542A1
• Filed: 03/11/2005
• Published: 07/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GIFU Service Corporation
• Original Assignee: GIFU Service Corporation
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Hideo
• Application Number:
  US11/908,334
• Publication Number:
  US 20080177542A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/253
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/1815 Semantic context, e.g. disambiguation of the recognition hypotheses based on word meaning
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/088 Word spotting
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/78 Detection of presence or absence of voice signals switching of direction of transmission by voice frequency in two-way loud-speaking telephone systems H04M9/10

Abstract

A voice recognition program according to claim 1 makes a computer execute a start determining word recognizing step for checking whether a start determining word for a sentence recognition is inputted by voice or not, an end determining word recognizing step for checking whether an end determining word for the sentence recognition is inputted by voice or not after the voice input of the start determining word, and a sentence recognizing step for recognizing by voice an intermediate sentence between the start determining word and the end determining word when it is judged that the start determining word and the end determining word are inputted in the start determining word recognizing step and the end determining word recognizing step. Thereby, it simplifies an input work of a fixed sentence, that is applicable to a preparation of a medical record or the like, that improves usability for a user such as a doctor who is unused to a PC operation and that is able to reduce largely a labor and a time for inputting work of the doctor or the like.

Claims

1. A voice recognition program characterized by making a computer execute:

a start determining word recognizing step for checking whether a start determining word for a sentence recognition is inputted by voice or not;

an end determining word recognizing step for checking whether an end determining word for the sentence recognition is inputted by voice or not after the voice input of the start determining word; and

a sentence recognizing step for recognizing by voice an intermediate sentence between the start determining word and the end determining word when it is judged that the start determining word and the end determining word are inputted in the start determining word recognizing step and the end determining word recognizing step;

wherein a set of a start determining word, an end determining word and an intermediate sentence that are spoken as a line of sentence as the start determining word, the end determining word and the intermediate sentence, while storing a plurality of fixed sentences as the intermediate sentence in a fixed sentence dictionary, so as to execute a sentence converting step for pattern-matching the intermediate sentence recognized by voice in the sentence recognizing step to each of the fixed sentences stored in the fixed sentence dictionary thereby outputting a fixed sentence corresponding to the intermediate sentence.

3. A voice recognition program as recited in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the sentence converting step pattern-matches the intermediate sentence consisting of a colloquial sentence recognized by voice in the sentence recognizing step to fixed sentences consisting of literary sentences stored preliminarily in a storage means so as to output a fixed sentence corresponding to the intermediate sentence.

4. A voice recognition program as recited in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the sentence converting step is not executed in case the intermediate sentence does not exist between the start determining word and the end determining word but is executed only when a word other than the end determining word is inputted just after the start determining word and the end determining word is inputted thereafter

7. A voice recognition program as recited in claim 3, characterized in that the sentence converting step is not executed in case the intermediate sentence does not exist between the start determining word and the end determining word but is executed only when a word other than the end determining word is inputted just after the start determining word and the end determining word is inputted thereafter.

2. A voice recognition program for recognizing by voice a confirmation sentence which is shown by one dialogist to another dialogist for confirming an information having a predetermined content, characterized by making a computer execute:

a word recognizing step for recognizing by voice a sequence of dialogue between the one dialogist and the other dialogist by a phoneme recognition and a word recognition utilizing a phonemic model and a word model so as to monitor words during the dialogue;

a start determining word recognizing step for pattern-matching the monitored words in the word recognizing step to a predetermined start determining word, which consists of a connective added just before the confirmation sentence to constitute a line of sentence, so as to check whether the start determining word is inputted by voice or not;

an end determining word recognizing step for pattern-matching the monitored words in the word recognizing step to a predetermined end determining word, which consists of an auxiliary verb added just after the confirmation sentence to constitute the line of sentence, so as to check whether the end determining word is inputted by voice or not; and

a sentence recognizing step for recognizing by voice an intermediate sentence between the start determining word and the end determining word only when the end determining word is inputted by voice after the start determining word is inputted by voice;

wherein a set of a start determining word, an end determining word and an intermediate sentence that are spoken as a line of sentence as the start determining word, the end determining word and the intermediate sentence, while storing a plurality of fixed sentences as the intermediate sentence in a fixed sentence dictionary, so as to execute a sentence converting step for pattern-matching the intermediate sentence recognized by voice in the sentence recognizing step to each of the fixed sentences stored in the fixed sentence dictionary thereby outputting a fixed sentence corresponding to the intermediate sentence.

5. A voice recognition program as recited in claim 2, characterized by:

using a limited number of connectives such as a copulative conjunction, explanatory one and switching one stored in a word dictionary as the start determining word;

using a limited number of end words of a tag question or auxiliary verbs stored in the word dictionary as the end determining word;

using as the intermediate sentence a sentence that is stored in the fixed sentence dictionary as the fixed sentence and that is filled in a medical record which a doctor as the one dialogist shows to a patient as the other dialogist for confirmation;

combining the start determining word, the intermediate sentence and the end determining word to make up the set so as to make it correspond to a colloquial sentence corresponding to a sentence filled in the medical record that is spoken by the doctor during a talk with the patient; and

making the computer execute a step for monitoring a dialogue between the doctor and the patient and filling in series only the fixed sentence corresponding to the intermediate sentence recognized in the sentence recognizing step into an electronic medical record from a plurality of sentences spoken by the doctor during the dialogue.

6. A voice recognition program as recited in claim 5, characterized by making the computer execute:

a step for showing as a list a plurality of fixed sentences as candidates if the plurality of the fixed sentences as the candidates exist corresponding to the intermediate sentence when the intermediate sentence recognized by voice is pattern-matched to each of the fixed sentences stored in the fixed sentence dictionary in the sentence recognizing step; and

a step for making the doctor confirm the plurality of the fixed sentences as the candidates shown as the list and select a most suitable fixed sentence, thereby filling the selected most suitable fixed sentence into the electronic medical record.