METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SPEECH-RECOGNITION TEXT-GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20160019893A1
• Filed: 07/06/2015
• Published: 01/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: FUNASE, KAZUKI, SAKAGUCHI, ATSUSHI
• Granted Patent: US 9,824,688 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 2015/221 Announcement of recognition results
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means voice activated dialling H04M1/271; voice recognition algorithms G10L15/00

Abstract

A method for controlling a speech-recognition text-generation system that captures speech, converts the captured speech into character strings through speech recognition, includes determining whether or not the character strings include a predetermined phrase; specifying, in a case where the predetermined phrase is determined to be included, a character string associated with the predetermined phrase among the character strings as a first character string which is a deletion candidate; and displaying the first character string in a first display form on a display terminal and displaying a second character string, which is a character string other than the first character string, in a second display form on the display terminal.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a speech-recognition text-generation system that captures speech, converts the captured speech into character strings through speech recognition, the method comprising:

determining whether or not the character strings include a predetermined phrase;

specifying, in a case where the predetermined phrase is determined to be included, a character string associated with the predetermined phrase among the character strings as a first character string which is a deletion candidate; and

displaying the first character string in a first display form on a display terminal and displaying a second character string, which is a character string other than the first character string, in a second display form on the display terminal.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the first character string is a character string located before or after the predetermined phrase among the character strings.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein

the predetermined phrase is a first phrase that specifies a character string before the predetermined phrase as a deletion candidate or a second phrase that specifies a character string after the predetermined phrase as a deletion candidate;

the first character string is the character string located before the predetermined phrase in a case where the predetermined phrase is the first phrase; and

the second character string is the character string located after the predetermined phrase in a case where the predetermined phrase is the second phrase.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the first display form is a display form in which the first character string is displayed at a lower luminance than that of the second character string displayed in the second display form.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the first display form is a display form in which the first character string is displayed in a color different from that of the second character string displayed in the second display form.

6. The method according to claim 1, the method further comprising:

deleting the display of the first character string by selection of a display region of the first character string on the display terminal.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein

at least one of the determining, the specifying and the displaying is performed by a processor.

8. A method for controlling a mobile terminal used in a speech recognition system in which the mobile terminal captures speech, the captured speech is converted into character strings through speech recognition in the mobile terminal or is transmitted to an external device and is converted into character strings through speech recognition in the external device, and the character strings are displayed on the mobile terminal or another display device, the method comprising:

determining a presence or an absence of an object in proximity to the mobile terminal; and

switching between whether or not processing for displaying the character strings on the display device is performed in accordance with the determination.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein

the processing for displaying the character strings is not performed by stopping speech capturing by the mobile terminal when an object is in proximity to the mobile terminal;

and

the processing for displaying the character strings is performed by starting speech capturing by the mobile terminal when no object is in proximity to the mobile terminal.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein

the processing for displaying the character strings is not performed by stopping speech capturing by the mobile terminal when no object is in proximity to the mobile terminal;

and

the processing for displaying the character strings is performed by starting speech capturing by the mobile terminal when an object is in proximity to the mobile terminal.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein

the processing for displaying the character strings is not performed by stopping transmission of the speech captured by the mobile terminal to the external device when an object is in proximity to the mobile terminal;

and

the processing for displaying the character strings is performed by transmitting the speech captured by the mobile terminal to the external device when no object is in proximity to the mobile terminal.

12. The method according to claim 8, wherein

the processing for displaying the character strings is not performed by stopping speech recognition of the speech captured by the mobile terminal when an object is in proximity to the mobile terminal;

and

the processing for displaying the character strings is performed by performing speech recognition of the speech captured by the mobile terminal when no object is in proximity to the mobile terminal.

13. The method according to claim 8, wherein

at least one of the determining, and the switching is performed by a processor included in the mobile terminal.

14. A method for controlling a mobile terminal used in a speech recognition system in which the mobile terminal captures speech, the captured speech is converted into character strings through speech recognition in the mobile terminal or is transmitted to an external device and is converted into character strings through speech recognition in the external device, and the character strings are displayed on the mobile terminal or another display device, the method comprising:

detecting an angle of the mobile terminal with respect to a horizontal plane; and

switching between whether or not processing for displaying the character strings on the display device is performed in accordance with the detected angle of the mobile terminal.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein

the processing for displaying the character strings is not performed by stopping speech capturing by the mobile terminal when the angle of the mobile terminal is not substantially horizontal;

and

the processing for displaying the character strings is performed by starting speech capturing by the mobile terminal when the angle of the mobile terminal is substantially horizontal.

16. The method according to claim 14, the method further comprising:

when the detected angle of the mobile terminal is substantially horizontal,

(i) disabling an operation of a touch panel included in the mobile terminal,

(ii) determining a presence or an absence of an object in proximity to the mobile terminal, and

(iii) switching between whether or not processing for displaying the character strings on the display device is performed in accordance with the determination.

17. The method according to claim 14, the method further comprising:

enabling an operation of a touch panel included in the mobile terminal when the detected angle of the mobile terminal is not substantially horizontal, and

switching to the not-processing for displaying the character strings when the detected angle of the mobile terminal is not substantially horizontal.

18. The method according to claim 14, wherein

at least one of the determining, and the switching is performed by a processor included in the mobile terminal.