Language information processing apparatus and method

Details Language information processing apparatus and method Language information processing apparatus and method

1997-02-24

1999-11-23

Thomas, Joseph

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Linguistics

Translation machine

704 8, 704277, 704260, 379 8805, G06F 1728

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059917113

ABSTRACT:
A language information processing apparatus for translating a model phrase in a first language into a corresponding second language and outputting the translated phrase. The apparatus includes a display that displays the phrase, an input device for inputting a character or a word to be added in the first language to the phrase displayed by the display, a first voice information storage device that stores voice information in the second language corresponding to the phrase, and a second voice information storage device that prepares and stores voice information concerning the character or word in the first language with an intonation in the first language, which character or word is input by the input device. The apparatus further includes a translation instruction device for instructing the translation of the phrase containing the character or the word in the first language, which character or word has been added by the input device, and a voice information reading device that reads the voice information in the second language corresponding to the phrase from the first voice information storage device under instruction from the translation instruction device, and reads the added character or word in the first language from the second voice information storage device.

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