Abstract:
A speech recognition system has: hypothesis search means which searches for an optimal solution of inputted speech data by generating a hypothesis which is a bundle of words which are searched for as recognition result candidates; self-repair decision means which calculates a self-repair likelihood of a word or a word sequence included in the hypothesis which is being searched for by the hypothesis search means, and decides whether or not self-repair of the word or the word sequence is performed; and transparent word hypothesis generation means which, when it is decided that the self-repair is performed, generates a transparent word hypothesis which is a hypothesis which regards as a transparent word a word or a word sequence included in a disfluency interval or a repair interval of a self-repair interval including the word or the word sequence.
Abstract:
A fixing device includes: a cylinder member that rotates in a circumferential direction thereof; a circulating member that circularly moves in a circumferential direction thereof and is pressed against the cylinder member; a heat source that heats a recording medium holding an unfixed toner image and nipped between the cylinder member and the circulating member; and a pressing member provided inside the circulating member, and including a nip forming portion that presses the circulating member against the cylinder member to form a nip region therebetween, and a thrusting portion that thrusts, upstream of the nip forming portion in a moving direction of the circulating member, and from inside the circulating member toward the cylinder member, the circulating member before being pressed against the cylinder member such that the thrust is greater in end portions of the circulating member than in a central portion of the circulating member.
Abstract:
When printing is to be executed on the basis of an input print job, and a group of sheets having undergone the printing on the basis of the input print job are discharged to a first one of multiple discharging destinations, the first discharging destination is switched to a second discharging destination in the course of the discharging process, and the second discharging destination is selected in accordance with an arranged order of the group of sheets.
Abstract:
A speech recognition apparatus that performs frame synchronous beam search by using a language model score look-ahead value prevents the pruning of a correct answer hypothesis while suppressing an increase in the number of hypotheses. A language model score look-ahead value imparting device 108 is provided with a word dictionary 203 that defines a phoneme string of a word, a language model 202 that imparts a score of appearance easiness of a word, and a smoothing language model score look-ahead value calculation means 201. The smoothing language model score look-ahead value calculation means 201 obtains a language model score look-ahead value at each phoneme in the word from the phoneme string of the word defined by the word dictionary 203 and the language model score defined by the language model 202 so that the language model score look-ahead values are prevented from concentrating on the beginning of the word.
Abstract:
A fixing device includes a rotatable heating member including a heat source and a pressure-applying member pressed against the heating member. The pressure-applying member includes a band-shaped member that extends in a width direction of a medium that passes through a fixing area, a support member opposed to the heating member with the band-shaped member disposed therebetween, and a pressing member including a base-end portion supported by the support member and a free-end portion that extends toward the fixing area. The pressing member has urging portions arranged with intervals therebetween in the width direction. The urging portions are elastically deformable in accordance with a thickness of the medium when the medium passes through the fixing area. The free-end portion urges the band-shaped member toward the heating member so that the band-shaped member is pressed against the heating member.
Abstract:
A speech recognition apparatus that performs frame synchronous beam search by using a language model score look-ahead value prevents the pruning of a correct answer hypothesis while suppressing an increase in the number of hypotheses. A language model score look-ahead value imparting device 108 is provided with a word dictionary 203 that defines a phoneme string of a word, a language model 202 that imparts a score of appearance easiness of a word, and a smoothing language model score look-ahead value calculation means 201. The smoothing language model score look-ahead value calculation means 201 obtains a language model score look-ahead value at each phoneme in the word from the phoneme string of the word defined by the word dictionary 203 and the language model score defined by the language model 202 so that the language model score look-ahead values are prevented from concentrating on the beginning of the word.
Abstract:
A plurality of pruning measures (PM) are calculated from a feature amount (CV) of test data (TD) which is input, a plurality of isopycnic surfaces (EC) are plotted and set on a threshold space (SS), a threshold curved surface (SC) in which a decrease in at least one of a plurality of pruning measures (PM) causes an increase in at least one thereof is generated using a portion of one isopycnic surface (EC) as a part, a hypothesis curved surface (HC) of subject data (CD) is generated on the threshold space (SS) to set a position intersecting the threshold curved surface (SC) to a pruning threshold (PS), and a plurality of hypotheses of the subject data (CD) are pruned. Thereby, there is provided a data processing device of which at least one of the recognition speed and the recognition accuracy is higher than in the related art.
Abstract:
A fixing device includes a rotatable heating member including a heat source and a pressure-applying member pressed against the heating member. The pressure-applying member includes a band-shaped member that extends in a width direction of a medium that passes through a fixing area, a support member opposed to the heating member with the band-shaped member disposed therebetween, and a pressing member including a base-end portion supported by the support member and a free-end portion that extends toward the fixing area. The pressing member has urging portions arranged with intervals therebetween in the width direction. The urging portions are elastically deformable in accordance with a thickness of the medium when the medium passes through the fixing area. The free-end portion urges the band-shaped member toward the heating member so that the band-shaped member is pressed against the heating member.
Abstract:
A speech recognition unit (102) includes a phrase determination unit (103) which determines a phrase boundary based on the comparison between the hypothetical word group generated by speech recognition and set words representing phrase boundaries. In this speech processing device, the speech recognition unit (102) outputs recognition results for each phrase based on a phrase boundary determined by the phrase determination unit (103).
Abstract:
A data communicating apparatus such as a facsimile is constructed by a receiver to receive data from a transmission side, a notifying unit to notify by a voice a fact that the data is being received by the receiver, and an identifying unit to identify a name of the transmission side. The notifying unit notifies the identified name of the transmission side and a fact that the data is being received by the receiver and/or a receiving method by a voice so as to distinguish the direct reception for outputting the received image data while receiving and the memory reception for storing the received image data into a memory.