SUBTITLE GENERATION AND RETRIEVAL COMBINING DOCUMENT PROCESSING WITH VOICE PROCESSING

• US 20100036664A1
• Filed: 08/11/2009
• Published: 02/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerence Operating Company (Cerence Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Miyamoto, Kohtaroh, Arakawa, Kenichi, Nagishi, Noriko
• Granted Patent: US 8,155,969 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/246
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/258 Heading extraction; Automatic titling; Numbering
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/088 Word spotting
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4884 for displaying subtitles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44504 Circuit details of the additional information generator, e.g. details of the character or graphics signal generator, overlay mixing circuits

Abstract

An apparatus for retrieving a character string includes: storage for storing text data obtained by recognizing a voice in a presentation, second text data extracted from document data used in the presentation, and associated information of the first text data and the second text data. The apparatus also includes a retrieval unit for retrieving, by use of the associated information, the character string from text data composed from the first text data and the second text data.

Claims

1. An apparatus for retrieving a character string, said apparatus comprising:

storage for storing first text data obtained by recognizing a voice in a presentation, second text data extracted from document data used in the presentation, and associated information of the first text data and the second text data; and

retrieval means for retrieving, by use of the associated information, the character string from text data composed of the first text data and the second text data.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising display means for displaying the result of retrieval conducted by the retrieval means, together with the associated information about the result of retrieval.

3. A program product which allows a computer to realize:

a function of determining, among subtitles obtained by recognizing voice generated with reference to a predetermined document, a specific subtitle obtained by recognizing voice generated with reference to a specific page of the document; and

a function of storing a correspondence between the specific subtitle and the specific page.

4. The program product according to claim 3, further allowing the computer to realize a function of displaying the specific subtitle together with specific information about the specific page.

5. The program product according to claim 3, further allowing the computer to realize a function of retrieving character strings, with the retrieval target range extended from the specific subtitle to text data contained in the specific page.