Abstract: A control device mounted on a vehicle includes a designation data acquisition unit that acquires designation data from an external device of the vehicle, the designation data designating vehicle data that is subjected to collection processing, a designation data storage unit that stores the designation data, a vehicle data collection unit that executes the collection processing to collect the vehicle data designated by the designation data, from the vehicle, and a transmission control unit that transmits the vehicle data collected by the vehicle data collection unit, to the external device through a communication device.

Abstract: From among pieces of referral information recorded in a points of interest (POI) information recording unit concerning POI extracted in accordance with a specific term which is set based on an input from a user, the referral information that includes related terms of the specific term is used to create referral text of the extracted POI.

Abstract: Referral text of first POI extracted by a POI extraction unit based on an input from a user is created using referral information associated with the first POI, and referral text of second POI extracted with a recommended priority lower than that of the first POI is created using, from among pieces of referral information associated with the second POI, the referral information of an item that differs from the item of the referral information used for the referral text of the first POI. It is possible to provide, to the user, the referral text created by taking into consideration a recommended priority, for the user, of a plurality of POI to be introduced to the user.

Abstract: A server is equipped with a POI information recording unit in which identification information of POI is recorded in association with referral information of the POI, a referral text creation unit which creates referral text concerning the POI using the referral information associated with the POI, and a user condition acquisition unit which acquires user conditions. The referral text creation unit creates the referral text of the POI by determining, based on the acquired user condition, which referral information among pieces of the referral information is to be used.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a simultaneous speech processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a speech recognition unit, a detection unit and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires a speech signal. The speech recognition unit generates a decided character string and at least one candidate character string. The detection unit detects a first character string as a processing piece character string if the first character string included in the decided character string exists commonly in one or more combined character strings on dividing the one or more combined character strings by a boundary indicating a morphological position serving as a start position of a processing piece in natural language processing. The output unit outputs the processing piece character string.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a speech translation apparatus includes a speech recognizer, a detector, a machine translator and a controller. The speech recognizer performs a speech recognition processing in chronological order on utterances of at least one first language made by a plurality of speakers to obtain a recognition text as a speech recognition result. The detector detects segments of meaning of the recognition text to obtain segments of text. The machine translator translates the segments of text into a second language different from the first language to obtain translated texts. The controller controls, if an utterance overlaps with another utterance in the chronological order, an order of displaying the translated texts corresponding to the overlapped utterances.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a machine translation apparatus includes a translator, a determiner, a requester, a receiver and a learner. The translator performs machine translation of an original language text based on a dictionary. The determiner calculates an evaluation value indicating validity of the machine translation text. The requester requests a human translator to perform a manual translation-related work relative to the original language text corresponding to the machine translation text that has been determined to be insufficient in translation quality. The receiver receives a result that the human translator has created in response to a request of the manual translation-related work. The learner updates the dictionary based on the result.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an interpretation apparatus includes a translator, a calculator and a generator. The translator performs machine translation on a speech recognition result corresponding to an input speech audio from a first language into a second language to generate a machine translation result. The calculator calculates a word number based on a first time when the machine translation result is generated and a second time when output relating to a prior machine translation result generated prior to the machine translation result ends, the word number being 0 or larger. The generator omits at least the word number of words from the machine translation result to generate an abridged sentence output while being associated with the speech audio.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a speech translation system includes a first terminal device including a first speech input unit for inputting a first speech of a first language spoken by a first user, and converting the first speech to a first speech signal; a second terminal device including a second speech input unit for inputting a second speech of a second language spoken by a second user, and converting the second speech to a second speech signal; a speech recognition device that receives the first speech signal and the second speech signal, recognizes the first speech signal to a first recognized text, and recognizes the second speech signal to a second recognized text; a machine translation device that receives the first recognized text and the second recognized text, translates the first recognized text to a first translated text of the second language, and translates the second recognized text to a second translated text of the first language; and a control device; wherein the first terminal device rec

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a voice conversation support apparatus includes an input unit, a first determination unit, a second determination unit, a third determination unit, and a scoring unit. The input unit accepts a text data input according to a voice input mode and another input mode. The first determination unit extracts at least one subject keyword representing a current subject from the text data input. The second determination unit estimates a category of a word that can be an answer. The third determination unit calculates a question pair likelihood. The scoring unit calculates a score about a priority of each input mode.

Abstract: A first speech processing device includes a first speech input unit and a first speech output unit. A second speech processing device includes a second speech input unit and a second speech output unit. In a server therebetween, a speech of a first language sent from the first speech input unit is recognized. The speech recognition result is translated into a second language. The translation result is back translated into the first language. A first speech synthesis signal of the back translation result is sent to the first speech output unit. A second speech synthesis signal of the translation result is sent to the second speech output unit. Duration of the second speech synthesis signal or the first speech synthesis signal is measured. The first speech synthesis signal and the second speech synthesis signal are outputted by synchronizing a start time and an end time thereof, based on the duration.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an interpretation apparatus includes a translator, a calculator and a generator. The translator performs machine translation on a speech recognition result corresponding to an input speech audio from a first language into a second language to generate a machine translation result. The calculator calculates a word number based on a first time when the machine translation result is generated and a second time when output relating to a prior machine translation result generated prior to the machine translation result ends, the word number being 0 or larger. The generator omits at least the word number of words from the machine translation result to generate an abridged sentence output while being associated with the speech audio.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a speech of a first language is recognized using a speech recognition dictionary to recognize the first language and a second language, and a source sentence of the first language is generated. The source sentence is translated into a second language, and a translation sentence of the second language is generated. An unknown word included in the translation sentence is detected. The unknown word is not stored in the speech recognition dictionary. A first pronunciation candidate of the unknown word is estimated, from a representation of the unknown word. A second pronunciation candidate of the unknown word is estimated from a pronunciation of an original word included in the source sentence corresponding to the unknown word. The unknown word, the first pronunciation candidate and the second pronunciation candidate, are registered into the speech recognition dictionary correspondingly.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a presentation support apparatus includes a switcher, an acquirer, a recognizer and a controller. The switcher switches a first content to a second content in accordance with an instruction of a first user, the first content and the second content being presented to the first user. The acquirer acquires a speech related to the first content from the first user as a first audio signal. The recognizer performs speech recognition on the first audio signal to obtain a speech recognition result. The controller controls continuous output the first content to a second user, when the first content is switched to the second content, during a first period after presenting the speech recognition result to the second user.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a speech translation apparatus includes a speech recognizer, a detector, a machine translator and a controller. The speech recognizer performs a speech recognition processing in chronological order on utterances of at least one first language made by a plurality of speakers to obtain a recognition text as a speech recognition result. The detector detects segments of meaning of the recognition text to obtain segments of text. The machine translator translates the segments of text into a second language different from the first language to obtain translated texts. The controller controls, if an utterance overlaps with another utterance in the chronological order, an order of displaying the translated texts corresponding to the overlapped utterances.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a speech translation apparatus includes a recognizer, a detector, a convertor and a translator. The recognizer recognizes a speech in a first language to generate a recognition result. The detector detects translation segments suitable for machine translation from the recognition result to generate translation-segmented character strings that are obtained by dividing the recognition result based on the detected translation segments. The convertor converts the translation-segmented character strings into converted character strings which are expressions suitable for the machine translation. The translator translates the converted character strings into a second language which is different from the first language to generate translated character strings.

Abstract: A first speech input device captures a speech of a first language. A first speech output device outputs another speech of the first language. A second speech input device captures a speech of a second language. A second speech output device outputs another speech of the second language. In a speech recognition/translation server, a first speech recognition device receives a first utterance speech of the first language from the first speech input device, and recognizes the first utterance speech. A first machine translation device consecutively translates the first language of the recognition result into the second language without waiting completion of the first utterance speech. A first speech synthesis device generates a second speech of the translation result. A first output adjustment device outputs the first utterance speech and the second speech to the second speech output device by adjusting a volume of the first utterance speech to be smaller than a volume of the second speech.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a speech translation apparatus includes a first input unit configured to input a first speech of a first speaker; a second input unit configured to input a second speech of a second speaker that is different from the first speaker; a first translation unit configured to translate the first speech to a first target language sentence; a second translation unit configured to translate the second speech to a second target language sentence; a first output unit configured to output the first target language sentence; a second output unit configured to output the second target language sentence; a speech detecting unit configured to detect a first speech duration from the first speech and detect a second speech duration from the second speech; and an output timing adjustment unit configured to adjust at least one of the first output unit and the second output unit, when the first speech duration and the second speech duration overlap each other.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a machine translation apparatus includes an input device which inputs a first language sentence; an additional information acquisition unit which acquires a first user or a current location of the first language sentence as a first additional information; a reference data storage device which stores second language reference data that are the relationships between second language sentences and at least one of a second user and a second user usage location of the second language sentences as a second additional information; a text data acquisition unit which acquire second language text data from the second language reference data including second additional information being the same at least one part of the first additional information; and a translation unit which translates the first language sentence to a second language sentence by using the second language text data.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a machine translation apparatus includes a speech recognition unit, a translation unit, a detection unit and an addition unit. The speech recognition unit performs speech recognition of speech. The translation unit translates the plurality of source language strings into target language strings in a chronological order. The detection unit detects ambiguity in interpretation of the speech corresponding to a first target language string of the target language strings. The addition unit adds, an additional phrase being one of words and phrases to interpret uniquely a modification relationship, to the first target language string if ambiguity is detected.