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AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsMiyuki Tanaka, Hiroaki Ogawa, Yasuhiko Kato, Tetsuya Kagami, Masao Watari, Makoto Akabane, Kazuo Ishii, Yasuharu Asano, Hiroshi Kakuda
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A translation apparatus and a translation method arranged to facilitate the operation of inputting a speech and to obtain a correct translation. When a speech in Japanese is input to a microphone by a user, it is recognized in a speech recognition section and one or more words constituting the speech are output to a system control section. The system control section searches Japanese sentences stored in a first language sentence storage section to find one of them most similar to a combination of one or more words output from the speech recognition section. The Japanese sentence thereby found is output through an output section. If this Japanese sentence is correct, the user operates one of control keys. The system control section then searches English sentences stored in a second language sentence storage section to find one of them corresponding to a translation of the Japanese sentence output as a search result, and outputs the English sentence thereby found through the output section.
A translation apparatus for translating a speech input in a first language into a sentence in a second language, comprising:
A translation method using first sentence storage means for storing sentences in a first language and second sentence storage means for storing sentences in a second language, in which a speech input in the first language is translated into a sentence in the second language, said method comprising the steps of:
A translation apparatus for translating a speech input in a first language into a sentence in a second language, comprising:
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