Remote conferencing systems, methods, and programs

Abstract

To provide a speech processing system that reduces the processing load of converting to text data. [Solution] The present invention relates to an audio processing system in which a terminal device and a device equipped with a microphone communicate, and is characterized by comprising: an audio synthesis unit that generates synthesized speech by synthesizing a first sound received by the terminal device from an external source and a second sound collected by the device; and a text conversion request unit that requests an external source to convert the synthesized speech synthesized by the audio synthesis unit into text data.

Claims

1. A voice processing system in which a terminal device and a device equipped with a microphone communicate, The terminal device has a first audio signal received from an external source and the device has a second audio signal collected by the device, and the latter has a voice synthesis unit that generates synthesized speech. A text conversion request unit requests an external party to convert the synthesized speech synthesized by the speech synthesis unit into text data, A voice processing system characterized by having the following features.

2. The terminal device receives the first voice from a terminal device at another location via the network. The voice processing system according to claim 1, characterized in that, before the voice synthesis unit synthesizes the first voice and the second voice, it has a location determination processing unit that determines the location from which the first voice and the second voice were spoken based on the sound pressure of the first voice and the second voice, respectively.

3. The aforementioned location determination processing unit divides the first voice and the second voice according to a predetermined rule, Based on the sound pressure of the divided first and second audio signals, the location is determined. The voice processing system according to claim 2, characterized in that, after determining the location, the synthesized voice obtained by combining the first voice and the second voice, the recognition result string obtained by converting the synthesized voice, and the location identification information determined by the location determination processing unit are stored in association with each other.

4. The voice processing system according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that the location determination processing unit determines that the location from which the greater of the sound pressure of the first voice and the sound pressure of the second voice was spoken is the location from which the synthesized voice created by combining the first voice and the second voice was spoken.

5. The location determination processing unit determines that the synthesized speech was spoken at another location if the sound pressure of the first speech is above a threshold and the sound pressure of the first speech is greater than the sound pressure of the second speech. If the sound pressure of the second voice is above a threshold and is greater than the sound pressure of the first voice, it is determined that the synthesized voice was spoken at the local location. The voice processing system according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that if the sound pressure of the first voice and the sound pressure of the second voice are below a threshold, it is determined that the location from which the synthesized voice was spoken is unknown.

6. The synthesized voice, the recognition result string obtained by converting the synthesized voice, and the location identification information determined by the location determination processing unit are stored in association on the network. It has an information processing system that communicates with the aforementioned terminal device, The aforementioned information processing system is The conference record confirmation unit provides a terminal device with a screen that displays the recognition result string obtained by converting the synthesized speech and the location identification information determined by the location determination processing unit, in association with each other. The voice processing system according to claim 2, characterized in that the meeting record confirmation unit changes the arrangement of the recognition result string on the screen according to the location identification information.

7. The meeting record verification unit arranges buttons for playing the synthesized speech, associating them with the recognition result string and the location identification information, for each of the divided synthesized speeches. The voice processing system according to claim 6, characterized in that when the aforementioned button is pressed, the terminal device plays the synthesized voice corresponding to the button.

8. The aforementioned terminal device is An operation reception unit that accepts editing of the aforementioned base identification information, The voice processing system according to claim 6 or 7, further comprising a communication unit that transmits the edited location identification information to the information processing system.

9. The terminal device creates recorded information by combining the screen obtained from the application running on the terminal device with the surrounding image obtained by the device. The speech processing system according to any one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the synthesized speech is converted into text data by speech recognition and stored in association with the recorded information.

10. The synthesized voice, the recognition result string obtained by converting the synthesized voice, and the location identification information determined by the location determination processing unit are all accompanied by a timestamp. The voice processing system according to claim 3, characterized in that the synthesized voice, the recognized result string, and the location identification information are stored in association with the aforementioned timestamp.

11. A device equipped with a microphone that can communicate with a terminal device, The terminal device has a first audio signal received from an external source and the device has a second audio signal collected by the device, and the latter has a voice synthesis unit that generates synthesized speech. A text conversion request unit requests an external party to convert the synthesized speech synthesized by the speech synthesis unit into text data, A device characterized by having the following features.

12. A voice processing method performed by a voice processing system in which a terminal device and a device equipped with a microphone communicate, The speech synthesis unit generates synthesized speech by combining a first sound received by the terminal device from an external source and a second sound collected by the device. The text conversion request unit requests an external party to convert the synthesized speech synthesized by the speech synthesis unit into text data, A method for processing sound, characterized by having the following features.

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