Question-answering method, system, and program for answering question input by speech

Disclosed is a question answering method for answering a question by using a text database storing text data in conjunction with a speech database storing speech data. In this method, a speech signal of the question is received. A speech recognition for the speech signal is performed to obtain a spe...

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Main Author ICHIMURA YUMI
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 25.08.2009
Subjects
ACOUSTICS
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
PHYSICS
SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS
SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING
SPEECH RECOGNITION
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Summary:Disclosed is a question answering method for answering a question by using a text database storing text data in conjunction with a speech database storing speech data. In this method, a speech signal of the question is received. A speech recognition for the speech signal is performed to obtain a speech recognition result including a recognition accuracy evaluation value. One of the text database and the speech database is selected by comparing the recognition accuracy evaluation value with a threshold value. Then, the selected database is searched for a search result. An answer to the question is generated based on the search result.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20040946514