# US 2014/0156256 A1 · Interface device for processing voice of user and method thereof > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0156256 A1 - Document ID: US20140156256A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 13/911,937 - Filed: 2013-06-06 - Published: 2014-06-05 - Earliest claimed: 2012-12-05 - Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute - Applicants: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute - Inventors: Ki Hyun KIM; Sang Hun KIM; Seung YUN - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140156256A1 ## CPC - G06F 40/58: Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation - G10L 2015/221: {Announcement of recognition results} - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G10L: SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING ## Abstract The present invention suggests an interface device for processing a voice of a user which efficiently outputs various information so as to allow a user to contribute to the voice recognition or the automatic interpretation and a method thereof. For this purpose, the present invention suggests an interface device for processing a voice of a user which includes an utterance input unit configured to input utterance of a user, an utterance end recognizing unit configured to recognize the end of the input utterance; and an utterance result output unit configured to output at least one of a voice recognition result, a translation result, and an interpretation result of the ended utterance. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An interface device for processing a voice of a user, comprising: an utterance input unit configured to input utterance of a user; an utterance end recognizing unit configured to recognize the end of the input utterance; and an utterance result output unit configured to output at least one of a voice recognition result, a translation result, and an interpretation result of the ended utterance. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The interface device of claim 1, further comprising: a voice volume level information output unit configured to output information on a voice volume level of the input utterance. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The interface device of claim 2, wherein the voice volume level information output unit outputs whether the voice volume level of the input utterance is appropriate on a picture or a graph using different colors or outputs an appropriate range of the voice volume level together with a current voice volume level of the input utterance. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The interface device of claim 3, wherein the voice volume level information output unit outputs the information on the voice volume level in real time. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The interface device of claim 1, further comprising: a progress situation output unit configured to output at least one progress situation of a voice recognition progress situation, a translation progress situation, and an interpretation progress situation of the input utterance at every predetermined time using a character selected by the user, or an utterance start/end output unit configured to output the beginning of the utterance or the end of the utterance of the user. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The interface device of claim 5, wherein the progress situation output unit divides the input utterance into sentences and outputs any one of the voice recognition result, the translation result, and the interpretation result of the sentences as the progress situation. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The interface device of claim 1, wherein if there are a plurality of the voice recognition results, a plurality of the translation results, and a plurality of the interpretation results, the utterance result output unit previously outputs at least two selected from the plurality of results and then finally outputs any one of the previously output results in accordance with the selection of the user. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The interface device of claim 1, wherein when the translation result is output, the utterance result output unit outputs the translation result with phonetic transcription of a native language of the user. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The interface device of claim 1, wherein when the user inputs the end or when the utterance which is input for a predetermined period of time is not input any more, the utterance end recognizing unit recognizes that the utterance has ended. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The interface device of claim 1, wherein the utterance result output unit connects the input utterance and the result of the utterance to be output on one window. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The interface device of claim 1, wherein the interface device for processing a voice of a user is mounted in mobile equipment which is carried by the user. ### Claim 12 An interface method of processing a voice of a user, comprising: inputting utterance of a user; recognizing the end of the input utterance; and outputing at least one of a voice recognition result, a translation result, and an interpretation result of the ended utterance. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The interface method of claim 12, further comprising: outputting information on a voice volume level of the input utterance. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The interface method of claim 13, wherein the outputting of voice volume level information includes outputting whether the voice volume level of the input utterance is appropriate on a picture or a graph using different colors or outputting an appropriate range of the voice volume level together with a current voice volume level of the input utterance or outputting information on the volume level in real time. ### Claim 15 (depends on 12) The interface method of claim 12, further comprising: outputting at least one progress situation of a voice recognition progress situation, a translation progress situation, and an interpretation progress situation of the input utterance at every predetermined time using a character selected by the user, or outputting the beginning of the utterance or the end of the utterance of the user. ### Claim 16 (depends on 12) The interface method of claim 12, wherein if there are a plurality of the voice recognition results, a plurality of the translation results, and a plurality of the interpretation results, the outputting of utterance result previously outputs at least two selected from the plurality of results and then finally outputs any one of the previously output results in accordance with the selection of the user. ### Claim 17 (depends on 12) The interface method of claim 12, wherein when the translation result is output, the outputting of an utterance result outputs the translation result with phonetic transcription of a native language of the user. ### Claim 18 (depends on 12) The interface method of claim 12, wherein the outputting of an utterance result connects the input utterance and the result of the utterance to be output on one window.