Instruction signal producing apparatus and method

• Main Authors: SUGAWARA SATOSHI, KAIHOTSU YUJI, NOMURA KAZUYA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 18.11.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ACOUSTICS; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; NAVIGATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; SIGNALLING; SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SURVEYING; TESTING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS

Herein disclosed is an instruction signal producing apparatus for producing an instruction signal to be outputted to an external appliance in response to at least one start-up key word, comprising: sound inputting means for digitally inputting a sound including a plurality of isolated sound sections temporally isolated from each other; isolated sound section detecting means for detecting the isolated sound sections of the inputted sound; isolated voice judging means for judging whether or not to recognize the isolated sound section as an isolated voice; speech recognition dictionary storing means for storing speech recognition dictionary including start-up key word information on the start-up key word; and speech recognition performing means for performing the speech recognition to judge whether or not the isolated sound section recognized as the isolated voice represents the start-up key word on the basis of the speech recognition dictionary stored in the speech recognition dictionary storing means.