VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICE

• US 20120239399A1
• Filed: 03/30/2010
• Published: 09/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Yamazaki, Michihiro, Maruta, Yuzo
• Application Number:
  US13/514,251
• Publication Number:
  US 20120239399A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/243
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/228 of application context

Abstract

Disclosed is a voice recognition device which creates a recognition dictionary (statically-created dictionary) in advance for a vocabulary having words to be recognized whose number is equal to or larger than a threshold, and creates a recognition dictionary (dynamically-created dictionary) for a vocabulary having words to be recognized whose number is smaller than the threshold in an interactive situation.

Claims

1. A voice recognition device which performs voice recognition while switching between vocabularies to be recognized through an interaction, said voice recognition device comprising:

a static creation unit for creating a recognition dictionary in advance for a vocabulary having words to be recognized whose number is equal to or larger than a threshold;

a dynamic creation unit for creating a recognition dictionary for a vocabulary having words to be recognized whose number is smaller than said threshold in an interactive situation; and

a voice recognition unit for performing voice recognition on an inputted voice by making reference to the recognition dictionary created by said static creation unit or said dynamic creation unit.

2. The voice recognition device according to claim 1, wherein said static creation unit creates a recognition dictionary in advance for each of all vocabularies which is an object to be recognized, and said dynamic creation unit creates a recognition dictionary for a vocabulary which is selected as an object to be recognized in an interactive situation.

3. The voice recognition device according to claim 1, wherein when said static creation unit creates a recognition dictionary containing a vocabulary which is selected as an object to be recognized in an interactive situation and whose percentage of a number of words to be recognized in said recognition dictionary is equal to or larger a predetermined percentage, said dynamic creation unit does not create any recognition dictionary for said vocabulary in said interactive situation, and said voice recognition unit performs voice recognition on the inputted voice by referring to said recognition dictionary created by said static creation unit, and outputs recognition result candidates which are included in a plurality of recognition result candidates having a greater recognition likelihood and are also included in the vocabulary to be recognized this time as recognition results.

4. The voice recognition device according to claim 3, wherein said static creation unit creates a recognition dictionary for a vocabulary which is an object to be recognized in advance in such a way that the number of words to be recognized exceeds a predetermined number in the interactive situation, and the number of words to be recognized in said interactive situation is equal to or smaller than a predetermined percentage of a total number of words in the recognition dictionary.

5. The voice recognition device according to claim 1, wherein said voice recognition device includes an intermediate result storage unit for storing an intermediate result of the creation of the recognition dictionary by said static creation unit, and, when creating a recognition dictionary for a vocabulary which is commonly used for the recognition dictionary created by said static creation unit, said dynamic creation unit creates a recognition dictionary by using said intermediate result read from said intermediate result storage unit.

6. The voice recognition device according to claim 1, wherein said voice recognition device includes a temporary storage unit for temporarily storing the recognition dictionary created by said dynamic creation unit, and a storage management unit for managing whether or not to store said recognition dictionary in said temporary storage unit according to a usage status of said recognition dictionary.