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US 6,192,332 B1Granted
Adaptive electronic phrase book
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
InventorAndrew R. Golding
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Abstract
A system is provided which translates phrases from a source language to a target language, and which includes means for continually updating the set of phrases that are known and translatable by the system so as to ensure that the set of phrases accurately reflects the sentences that users most frequently ask to have translated.
Claims8
An adaptive electronic phrase book, comprising:
- a speech decoder for decoding spoken language and for providing a text representation of a spoken phrase;
- a microphone coupled to said speech decoder for picking up said spoken phrase;
- a display for displaying said text representation;
- a translation table that maps a plurality of phrases in the speaker's language to their foreign-language equivalents;
- means for the user to specify predetermined characteristics of the conversational context;
- means responsive to said text representation and said predetermined conversational context, and coupled to said display for looking up said text representation in said translation table and returning to said display a text representation of at least one foreign language equivalent of said phrase;
- means for selecting at least one of said foreign language equivalents as the foreign language equivalent phrase to be announced;
- means for announcing said selected foreign language equivalent phrase;
- and,
- means for updating said translation table to assure that said table contains at all times the set of phrases most frequently needed by users.
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An adaptive electronic phrase book, comprising:
- a speech decoder for decoding spoken language and for providing a digital representation of a spoken phrase;
- a microphone coupled to said speech decoder for picking up said spoken phrase;
- a display for displaying said digital representation;
- means responsive to said digital representation and coupled to said display for returning to said display a digital representation of at least one foreign language equivalent of said phrase;
- means for selecting at least one of said foreign language equivalents as the foreign language equivalent phrase to be announced;
- means for announcing said selected foreign language equivalent phrase;
- and,
- means for updating said foreign language phrase returning means to assure the return of a correct foreign language phrase.
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