Conversation Support Text Threading for Speech Context
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing conversation support systems display speech in a time series, making it difficult for hearing-impaired participants to understand the context of previous speech or comments.
Innovation Solution
A conversation support device and system that allows users to select designated text, displaying associated speech in correlation with the designated text, and optionally thread-displaying comments, facilitating context understanding.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If speech is displayed in a time series on the screen, then the system can display all speech content, but it becomes difficult to understand the context of previous speech or comments
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a nested display structure where comment information is embedded within the speech text display. When a user selects a comment, the speech content associated with that comment is nested displayed within the comment area, creating a hierarchical information structure that preserves context while maintaining ease of understanding.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary selection mechanism that allows users to select specific comments or speech content. This intermediary layer (the selection interface) mediates between the comprehensive speech display and the user's need to understand context, enabling users to selectively view associated speech content without displaying all information simultaneously.
2Device complexity
If speech is displayed in a time series, then the display structure is simple, but navigating to and understanding previous speech requires additional cognitive effort
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions by pre-organizing speech content into segments associated with specific comments. The system prepares and stores the relationships between comments and their associated speech content in advance, so that when a user selects a comment, the related speech is immediately available for display without requiring complex real-time processing or navigation through the entire time-series display.
3Loss of information
If all speech is displayed sequentially, then information completeness is maintained, but the ability to quickly access and understand specific context is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the continuous speech stream into discrete units associated with individual comments. Each speech segment is linked to its corresponding comment, allowing the system to maintain information completeness while enabling users to efficiently access and process only the specific speech-context pairs relevant to their needs, rather than processing the entire speech sequence.
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AI summary
A conversation support device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire speech; a display unit configured to display text based on the acquired speech; and a control unit configured to cause the display unit to display the text based on the speech. The control unit recognizes a piece of text selected by a user out of a plurality of pieces of the text displayed on the display unit as designated text. The control unit causes the display unit to display speech associated with the designated text in correlation with the designated text when the speech associated with the designated text is input in a state in which the designated text has been recognized.