Abstract: An analyzing unit performs a morphological analysis of an input character string that is obtained by processing input speech. A generating unit divides the input character string in units of division previously decided, that is composed of one or plural morphemes, and generates partial character strings including part of components of the divided input character string. A candidate output unit outputs the generated partial character strings to a display unit. A selection receiving unit receives a partial character string selected from the outputted partial character strings as a target to be processed.

Abstract: A speech translating apparatus includes a input unit, a speech recognizing unit, a translating unit, a first dividing unit, a second dividing unit, an associating unit, and an outputting unit. The input unit inputs a speech in a first language. The speech recognizing unit generates a first text from the speech. The translating unit translates the first text into a second language and generates a second text. The first dividing unit divides the first text and generates first phrases. The second dividing unit divides the second text and generates second phrases. The associating unit associates semantically equivalent phrases within each group of phrases. The outputting unit sequentially outputs the associated phrases in a phrase order within the second text.

Abstract: A first recognizing unit recognizes a first-language speech as a first-language character string, and outputs a first recognition result. A second recognizing unit recognizes the first-language speech as a most probable first-language example from among first-language examples stored in an example storing unit, and outputs a second recognition result. A retrieving unit retrieves, when a similarity between the first recognition result and the second recognition result exceeds a predetermined threshold, a second-language example corresponding to the second recognition result from the example storing unit.

Abstract: A machine translation apparatus includes a translating unit that translates a source language document into a translated document described in a target language, and creates an ambiguous portion that is a word or a sentence having an ambiguity occurred during translation; a storing unit that stores the translated document and the ambiguous portion; a speech receiving unit that receives a speech in the source language; a recognition unit that recognizes the speech received and creates a source language speech sentence as a recognition result; a translation updating unit that updates the translated language document by retranslating a part of a speech content of the source language speech sentence to which the ambiguous portion corresponds, when the source language document includes the ambiguous portion; and a display control unit that displays the updated translated document on a display unit.