Voice information processing apparatus and voice information processing method
AssigneeAlps Alpine Co., Ltd.
InventorHongda Zheng
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Abstract
A voice information processing apparatus sequentially converts an utterance of a user into text during a voice reception period that is a period in which an uttered voice to be converted into text is received from a user, and in a case where it can be regarded that the utterance of the user has been interrupted, the voice information processing apparatus automatically causes utterance content already uttered by the user to be output by a voice during the voice reception period. As a result, the voice information processing apparatus can cause the user to recognize a content of a sentence that has been uttered by the user so far and converted into text, when it can be regarded that the utterance of the user has been interrupted.
Claims20
A voice information processing apparatus, comprising:
- a voice input unit configured to input a voice;
- an audio output unit configured to output the voice;
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- a voice information processing unit configured to convert a voice input by the voice input unit into text during a voice reception period that is a period in which an uttered voice to be converted into text is received from a user, wherein utterance content already uttered by the user during the voice reception period is automatically output to the audio output unit by the voice in a case where the utterance of the user can be regarded as being interrupted while the utterance of the user is sequentially converted into text during the voice reception period.
A voice information processing method, comprising:
- converting, by a voice information processing unit of a voice information processing apparatus, a voice input by a voice input unit of the voice information processing apparatus into text during a voice reception period, which is a period during which the voice information processing unit of the voice information processing apparatus receives an uttered voice to be converted into the text from a user;
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- automatically outputting, by the voice information processing unit of the voice information processing apparatus, utterance content already uttered by the user during the voice reception period to an audio output unit of the voice information processing apparatus by the voice, in a case where the utterance of the user is regarded as being interrupted while the utterance of the user is sequentially converted into the text during the voice reception period.
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