Abstract: [Object] An object is to provide an easy-to-use speech processing system attaining higher accuracy of speech recognition. [Solution] Receiving a speech utterance, the speech processing system performs speech recognition and displays a text of the recognition result. Further, the speech processing system translates the recognition result in accordance with settings to a text of another language and displays and synthesizes speech of the translated result. Further, the speech processing system selects utterance candidates having high possibility to be uttered as the next utterance and having high translation and speech recognitions scores, using outputs of various sensors at the time of utterance, a pre-trained utterance sequence model and translation and speech recognition scores of utterance candidates, and recommends utterance candidates in the form of an utterance candidate recommendation list. A user can think of what to say next using the utterances in utterance candidate recommendation list as hints.

Abstract: [Object] An object is to provide an easy-to-use speech processing system attaining higher accuracy of speech recognition. [Solution] Receiving a speech utterance, the speech processing system performs speech recognition and displays a text 158 of the recognition result. Further, the speech processing system translates the recognition result in accordance with settings to a text 176 of another language and displays and synthesizes speech of the translated result. Further, the speech processing system selects utterance candidates having high possibility to be uttered as the next utterance and having high translation and speech recognitions scores, using outputs of various sensors at the time of utterance, a pre-trained utterance sequence model and translation and speech recognition scores of utterance candidates, and recommends utterance candidates in the form of an utterance candidate recommendation list 192.

Abstract: A gas detecting element comprising a hollow cylindrical insulative body, a pair of electrodes provided on the outer periphery of the insulative body, a gas detecting body covering up the outer periphery of the insulative body and the electrodes, a catalyst layer made of a catalytic material and coated on said gas detecting body, thereby covering up the surface of said gas detecting body, and a heater disposed in the hollow of the insulative body. When the gas detecting element comes into contact with a gas, the surface resistance of the gas detecting body varies, thereby detecting the gas.

Abstract: A piezoelectric oxide material having a general formula(1-x)PbTiO.sub.3 -xPb(CO.sub.1/2 W.sub.1/2)O.sub.3where, "x" ranges between 0.01 and 0.20, and 0.5 to 20 atomic % of Pb is replaced by at least one element selected from the group of Ba, Sr and Ca.The piezoelectric oxide material of this composition has a high Curie point, is suitable for use in high frequency regions and can be readily polarized.