Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Speech translation device, speech translation method, and recording medium therefor
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Application No.: US16363407Application Date: 2019-03-25
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Publication No.: US11238852B2Publication Date: 2022-02-01
- Inventor: Kohhei Hayashida , Atsushi Sakaguchi , Kazuya Nomura , Hiroki Furukawa , Tsuyoki Nishikawa
- Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JPJP2018-216723 20181119
- Main IPC: G10L15/20
- IPC: G10L15/20 ; G06F40/58 ; G10L15/22 ; H04R1/32

Abstract:
A speech translation device includes: a beamformer which forms, from a speech signal obtained by a microphone array, a first beam and a second beam having different directions; a direction designator which designates one of the first beam and the second beam according to a user operation; a signal-to-noise (SN) ratio calculator which calculates an SN ratio using the designated beam as a signal component in the SN ratio, and the other beam not designated as a noise component; a display determiner which determines whether recognition of the designated beam is difficult, using the calculated SN ratio, and determines a speaking instruction for overcoming difficulty of the recognition when determining that the recognition is difficult; and a display which displays the speaking instruction determined by the display determiner in a display area.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190304442A1 SPEECH TRANSLATION DEVICE, SPEECH TRANSLATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR Public/Granted day:2019-10-03
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