摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide speech translating method and apparatus for improving the quality of speech translation. <P>SOLUTION: A long sentence in a text obtained as a result of performing speech recognition of input speech is segmented into simple sentence units comprising one set of a subject and a predicate by using a segmenting model including a plurality of n-grams and their respective probabilities, and each simple sentence is translated into a sentence of a target language. When a segmentation position in the long sentence is modified, the long sentence is segmented into simple sentence units at a new modified segmentation position. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT</p> |