Abstract: The present invention provides a cutting tool and a cutting method for the cutting tool which enable curl of a chip to be corrected without causing the chip to be jammed and which also allow the chip to be guided by correcting the direction of the chip to a desired one. A cutting tool 1 has a guide groove 5 formed in a raked face 4 and extending from a cutting edge line 5 to guide a chip 10. The guide groove 7 has a smaller width than the chip 10. A part of a rake face 10 side of the chip 10 is fitted into the guide groove 7 to allow the chip 10 to be guided. A cover 8 may be provided on the raked face 4. In place of the guide groove 7, a guide protrusion may be provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a machine tool which allows a chip to be guided in a desired direction and which enables consecutive chip processing, the machine tool further enabling a reduction in cutting resistance, required power, resulting heat, friction of a tool, and the like. The machine tool includes a chip processing means 12 for continuously processing a chip 10 flowing from a workpiece W, a tensile force applying means 11 for applying a tensile force to the chip 10 at a position closer to a cutting edge line 5 than the means 12, and a chip guiding means 6 for guiding the chip 10 to the means 11. As the chip guiding means 6, a guide groove 7 is formed in a rake face of a cutting tool. The guide groove 7 has a smaller width than the chip 10. A part of a rake surface side of the chip 10 is fitted into the guide groove 7 to allow the chip 10 to be guided.

Abstract: An information-object designation system in which two character strings, a character string expressive of a name of each of information objects stored in an information processing system, and a character string based on externally inputted information, are compared, and in which when a match of the two character strings has been detected, an event is commenced for the information object having the name expressed by the matching character string.

Abstract: A speech recognition system wherein a word being the most similar to an inputted voice is delivered as a recognized result; in order to assist a user in entering a voice input, words being subjects for the recognition of the inputted voice are automatically displayed, or recently displayed ones of words which have been displayed up to the present are extracted as words to become subjects for recognition and are automatically displayed as the subjects for the recognition of the input voice.

Abstract: A speech recognition system recognizes voices from sequence data which is expected to be input in a regular, predetermined order. The speech recognition system includes a unit generating a recognition reference word by adding items of dummy data to each item of the sequence data, and a unit recognizing and outputting from among a set of recognition reference words that recognition reference word which is the most similar to an externally input voice. The recognition reference word is output as a recognized result on the basis of a feature of the input voice. Moreover, the dummy data are neighboring data which lie in a neighborhood of all items of the sequence data, thus forming the set of recognition reference words available for speech recognition.

Abstract: A speech recognition system wherein a word being the most similar to an inputted voice is delivered as a recognized result; in order to assist a user in entering a voice input, words being subjects for the recognition of the inputted voice are automatically displayed, or recently displayed ones of words which have been displayed up to the present are extracted as words to become subjects for recognition and are automatically displayed as the subjects for the recognition of the input voice.