Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

• US 10,714,082 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2016
• Issued: 07/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kato, Ayumi, Sawai, Kunihito, Kawano, Shinichi, Taki, Yuhei, Nakagawa, Yusuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Gay, Sonia L
• Application Number:
  US15/523,880
• Publication Number:
  US 20170337919A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,455 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/02 Feature extraction for speech recognition; Selection of recognition unit
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/063 Training
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• 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: G10L 2015/221 Announcement of recognition results
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program, in which a database in which unknown words are registered is able to be efficiently created, the information processing apparatus including: an identifying portion that identifies a word uttered according to a predetermined utterance method, from within utterance information of a user, as an unknown word; and a processing portion that performs processing to register the unknown word that has been identified.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an identifying portion that identifies a word uttered according to a predetermined utterance method, from within utterance information of a user, as an unknown word;

an image generating portion that generates an image that indicates whether an utterance by the user corresponds to the predetermined utterance method; and

a processing portion that performs processing to register the unknown word that has been identified,

wherein the image includes a threshold value image that displays a threshold value indicating to the user that the uttered word is identified as the unknown word when the predetermined utterance method is satisfied, and

wherein the identifying portion, the image generating portion, and the processing portion are each implemented via at least one processor.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined utterance method is a method of uttering with a pause of a length equal to or longer than a threshold value after each character.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined utterance method is a method of uttering each character at a volume equal to or louder than a threshold value.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined utterance method is a method of uttering each character with a prolonged sound of a length equal to or longer than a threshold value.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the threshold value in the predetermined utterance method is controlled on the basis of information related to the user.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the information related to the user is a rate of utterance of the user.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the information related to the user is information related to a body of the user.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the threshold value in the predetermined utterance method is controlled on the basis of information related to content of the utterance information that is input.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the threshold value in the predetermined utterance method is controlled on the basis of information related to an environment around the user.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the threshold value in the predetermined utterance method is controlled on the basis of information related to a voice input device that acquires the utterance information.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image generating portion generates an utterance image that displays the utterance information of the user that has been recognized, with a character.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the unknown word is displayed with a predetermined phonogram in the utterance image.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the unknown word is displayed in notation that differs from notation of other utterance information in the utterance image.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when a language of the utterance information of the user is a language written in an alphabet, utterance of alphabetic spelling and pronunciation of the unknown word is also included in the predetermined utterance method.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the user re-utters the utterance information, the utterance information is corrected to the re-uttered utterance information.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing portion performs processing to register the unknown word included in the utterance information when the user has confirmed the utterance information.

17. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the unknown word that has been registered is regarded as an unsegmented single word.

20. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an identification control portion that controls execution of an identification operation by the identifying portion, on the basis of eye gaze information of the user.

21. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the threshold value image indicates to the user a time to the threshold value in the predetermined utterance method.

18. An information processing method performed by an operation processing device, the method comprising:

identifying a word uttered according to a predetermined utterance method, from within utterance information of a user, as an unknown word;

generating an image that indicates whether an utterance by the user corresponds to the predetermined utterance method; and

performing processing to register the unknown word that has been identified,

wherein the image includes a threshold value image that displays a threshold value indicating to the user that the uttered word is identified as the unknown word when the predetermined utterance method is satisfied.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

identifying a word uttered according to a predetermined utterance method, from within utterance information of a user, as an unknown word;

generating an image that indicates whether an utterance by the user corresponds to the predetermined utterance method; and

performing processing to register the unknown word that has been identified,

wherein the image includes a threshold value image that displays a threshold value indicating to the user that the uttered word is identified as the unknown word when the predetermined utterance method is satisfied.