JP2013222347A - Minute book generation device and minute book generation method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To grasp the situations of a convention and the reference materials of the convention at a glance, and to easily perform access to necessary information.SOLUTION: The minute book generation device includes: voice processing means for collecting the voice of the attendant of a convention by a microphone, and for converting the collected voice into voice data to store the voice data in a storage part; voice recognition means for analyzing the voice data to specify the attendant of the convention, and for specifying the utterance section and non-utterance section of each attendant; reference material processing means for storing a file started by the convention attendant and a reference path for linking reference materials and the materials of a reference page in the storage part; operation means for performing the setting of the reference materials, the input of the convention information and the reproduction instruction of a minute book; and operation/display processing means for displaying the data respectively stored in the storage part by the voice processing means and the reference material processing means like a band along the attendant-categorized time axis of the minute book of the convention as well as the icon of the reference materials and the reference page and an icon showing the utterance situations.

Description

  The present invention relates to a minutes generation apparatus and a minutes generation method, and more particularly to a technique suitable for use at a glance so as to make it possible to grasp a meeting situation and reference materials.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a conference electronic minutes generating apparatus has been proposed.
For example, the recording device described in Patent Document 1 maps the situation (atmosphere) in a meeting to a timeline chart. Then, bright voices, angry voices, etc. can be identified in the speech section, applause, laughter, noises, etc. can be identified in the non-speech section, mapped using icons, and playback of the desired section can be performed by clicking and other operations. .

  The minutes creation apparatus described in Patent Document 2 can automatically describe the contents of statements made at a meeting without leaking them in time order and automatically identify the minutes of participants who made the statements. In addition, it is possible to record the contents of the whiteboard used in the meeting and media information such as images used in the projector in the minutes in order of time, and to output the contents of speech and media information to the terminal. Is possible.

  The information processing apparatus of the electronic conference system described in Patent Document 3 displays the speech time zone of each conference member together with the content of the speech, for example, the content of the speech of each conference member with an icon, and the icon simply suggests the content of the speech Or indicate the type of media being remarked. Through the display of the content of the remarks, it is possible to see at a glance the proceeding status of the proceedings, for example, what kind of questions and answers were received, and the replay content replay instruction means that allows the replay of the remarks corresponding to each remark content display area It has.

  In the automatic recording device described in Patent Document 4, while the material used in the conference is displayed on the display device, the temporary storage means stores the material number, the voice input means always inputs the participant's speech, and the speech selection The means determines whether the remark is public or private and selects the public one. Further, when the utterance to be stored is determined, the index creating means creates an index for associating the material number with the utterance, and the utterance recording means stores the utterance to be recorded and the index when the storage device is determined. To remember.

JP 2010-054991 A JP 2004-287201 A JP-A-6-266632 JP-A-4-82357 JP 2002-91482 A

  In the above-described Patent Documents 1 to 4, there is a problem that it takes time for the person who has not participated in the conference to understand the status of the conference. In terms of understanding the situation, the above-described device of Patent Document 1 is most effective for understanding the situation. According to Patent Document 1 described above, for example, the minutes as shown in FIG. 10 are generated, and the speech sections and non-speech sections of the attendees of the conference are divided and displayed, and the atmosphere of each section is displayed as a list. You can refer to the remarks of the desired section.

However, at first glance it is impossible to know which material was the argument. In other words, there was a problem that it was impossible to understand what was the argument without referring to the remarks.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and it is an object of the present invention to make it possible to grasp a conference status and conference reference materials at a glance and to easily access necessary information.

  The minutes generating device of the present invention is a minutes generating device for creating and playing back the minutes of a meeting, which picks up the voice of attendees of the meeting with a microphone and digitizes the picked up sound Voice processing means for converting voice data and storing it in a storage unit; voice recognition means for analyzing the voice data and identifying attendees of the conference; A reference material processing means for detecting a material referred to by an attendee during the meeting and storing a material path and a reference material reference page in a storage unit; and setting of the reference material; The operation means for inputting conference information and instructing the reproduction of the minutes, and the data stored in each storage unit by the voice processing means and the reference material processing means, the time axis for each attendee on the minutes of the meeting Along the belt Reference material, characterized in that it comprises an operation and display processing means for displaying together with the icons showing the icons and speech status of a reference page.

  According to the present invention, information on a conference that has been held is expressed in time series using icons. Each icon represents the status of the meeting and reference materials, and links to discussion contents, reference materials, and reference pages. This makes it possible to grasp the status of the conference and reference materials at a glance, and to easily access desired information.

It is a figure which shows embodiment of this invention and shows the structural example of the minutes generation system. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the minutes production | generation apparatus of 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the minutes before the meeting start corresponding to 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the minutes after the meeting corresponding to 1st Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of a process of the minutes generation apparatus of 1st Embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the minutes production | generation apparatus of 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the minutes before the meeting start corresponding to 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the minutes after the meeting corresponding to 2nd Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of a process of the minutes generation apparatus of 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the minutes of a prior art.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
[First Embodiment]
1 shows the configuration diagram of FIG. 1, the block diagram of FIG. 2, the diagram of the minutes template before the start of the conference in FIG. 3, and the minutes after the conference in FIG. This will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a minutes generating apparatus according to the present embodiment, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the minutes generating apparatus.

  In the configuration diagram of FIG. 1, the minutes generating apparatus 101 is installed in a room where a meeting is held, and is connected to a microphone 102 for collecting the voices of attendees. In addition, since the minutes generating apparatus 101 is also used as a terminal (presentation terminal) for displaying materials in a meeting, it is connected to a display device 103 such as a projector or a large screen display. In addition, the operator in FIG. 1 may be a material explanation person, may assign a specific operator, and is not specifically limited.

The minutes generation apparatus 101 of the present embodiment has a function of creating and playing back the minutes of a meeting. As shown in FIG. 2, the voice processing unit 21, the reference material processing unit 22, the text minutes generation unit 23, and The operation / display processing unit 24 is configured.
The voice processing unit 21 includes a sound collection unit 201, a voice data storage unit 202, a voice recognition unit 203, an emotion classification unit 204, and a playback unit 205.

The reference material processing unit 22 includes a reference material path storage unit 206 and a reference page section information storage unit 207.
The text minutes generation unit 23 includes a voice / text conversion unit 211 and a minutes addition / storage unit 212.
The operation / display processing unit 24 includes an operation unit 208, a display / reproduction control unit 209, and a display unit 210. The operation unit 208 performs setting of reference materials, input of meeting information, and an instruction to reproduce the minutes. The storage means in each storage unit is realized by a CPU, RAM, ROM, hard disk drive, etc. (not shown).

Next, the operation of the minutes generation apparatus 101 of this embodiment will be described.
First, before the meeting, the person in charge of the minutes starts up the minutes generating apparatus 101, and the meeting information column 301 of the minutes template as shown in FIG. 3 shows the meeting information, the attendee name in the attendee field 302, and the data field. In 303, the materials of each attendee are registered. Here, the conference information is information such as a conference name and a venue, and is input as necessary. Further, the document may be referred to via a network such as a LAN, or may be downloaded to the external storage device of the minutes generating device 101 for reference.
When these preparations are complete and the conference can be started, the conference start button 304 is pressed. Thereby, the voice processing and the reference material processing are continued until the conference end button 305 is pressed.

Each process will be described with reference to FIG.
First, the voice processing unit 21 will be described. When the conference start button 304 is pressed, recording of audio data is started. The sound collecting unit 201 collects sound data. The sound collection unit 201 collects voices of a plurality of attendees (for example, attendees A, B, C, and D), digitizes them into digital voice signals, and inputs them to the voice data storage unit 202. The sound collection unit 201 includes one or more microphones, and may be a plurality of microphones assigned to each attendee, or may be a microphone that collects sound of all attendees at once.

The voice recognition unit 203 analyzes the digital voice signal input from the voice data storage unit 202 and detects a break between each participant's utterances, thereby determining a speech segment and a non-speech segment for each participant. For each speaking section, the speaker is specified, and for the non-speaking section, the status (silence, applause, noise, etc.) of the section is specified. Then, the identified voice data is output to the emotion classification unit 204.
The speech of each attendee can be identified by recognizing the speech waveform of each attendee registered in advance. In addition, when a microphone is provided for each attendee, the speaker can be identified based on which microphone has picked up the sound.

The emotion classification unit 204 analyzes the speech section and classifies the result as the meeting atmosphere. This emotion analysis can be realized, for example, by applying the technique described in Patent Document 5 or the like.
Note that voice data storage, voice recognition, and emotion classification can be performed in parallel at the same time.

Next, the reference material processing unit 22 will be described.
The minutes generating apparatus 101 is also used as a terminal for displaying presentation materials. Therefore, when a material in the material column is selected by clicking or the like, it is activated and displayed by an appropriate application. At this time, a file activated by an access command or the like is detected, and the reference path is stored in the reference material path storage unit 206. Further, the reference page number is acquired by the access command, and the reference page section information storage unit 207 stores the reference page information. Since the audio data and the reference material information are managed by the time stamp at the same time, the audio data and the reference material data are linked temporally.

  Next, the text minutes generation unit 23 will be described. The voice data is converted into text by the voice / text conversion unit 211, and updated / added at any time as a text-based minutes by the minutes addition / storage unit 212 together with identification information and reference material information of each attendee.

Next, the operation / display processing unit 24 will be described.
In the operation / display processing unit 24 of the present embodiment, each data stored by the voice processing unit 21 and the reference material processing unit 22 is a band of reference material icons and statements along the time axis according to the attendees on the minutes. It is displayed with an icon indicating the status.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a screen of a list of remarks / reference materials displayed on the display of the minutes generating device. This display shows attendees on the vertical axis and elapsed time on the horizontal axis, and displays a band-shaped icon with a length corresponding to the reference time of the reference material. For audio data, every unit time (for example, 3 minutes) The icons indicating the situation are arranged for each attendee. Of course, the reference material can be indicated by an icon for each unit time, and the audio data can be indicated by a band-shaped icon corresponding to the speech time.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the minutes generated in the first embodiment of the present invention corresponding to the conventional minutes shown in FIG. Note that this embodiment is a minutes generation device that is more useful to those who have not participated in the conference. For example, it is particularly useful as reporting material to a supervisor who is not attending a meeting but is responsible for the conclusion of the meeting.

The minutes generated by the minutes generation apparatus of the present embodiment are displayed with an icon indicating an audio atmosphere and an icon indicating a reference material corresponding to the discussion time, and the following points become clear.
(1) Which material was the discussion about?
(2) What was the atmosphere of the process leading to the conclusion?
(3) It is possible to know at a glance the discussion time, that is, how the discussion was in the process of reaching the conclusion, together with the referenced material information. For example, the following situation can be understood at a glance.
(4) In a discussion on a document, a conclusion was reached in a short time (it can be assumed that the conclusion is likely to be valid).
(5) In the discussion of another document, after many twists and turns, we came to a conclusion (it can be assumed that it is better to confirm the circumstances leading to the conclusion and judge the validity).
As a result, even those who have not participated in the conference can understand the points, and can easily and quickly refer to the voices and materials in the discussion determined to be confirmed by clicking the mouse.

  In many cases, when the situation in the meeting changes is an important discussion in the meeting, it is also possible to display this change with an easy-to-understand icon. For example, an icon indicating that is highlighted at a point where the atmosphere changes from a calm atmosphere to a noisy atmosphere. Contrary to this, highlighting is similarly performed in the transition from a noisy atmosphere to silence. As a result, the minutes can be accurately displayed during or after the meeting, so that a change in the situation at the meeting can be seen at a glance.

Next, an example of processing corresponding to the minutes generation of the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
First, in S501, initial settings necessary for displaying a template of minutes are performed. Here, registration of conference information, principals, reference materials, etc. is performed. When the conference start button 304 is pressed in the subsequent S502 at the stage where the preparation for starting the conference is completed after the initial setting, the process proceeds to S503.

  In S503, the recording of the proceedings is continued until the conference end button 305 is pressed (“Yes” in S503). If “No” is determined in S503, the flow for performing audio processing and the flow for performing reference material processing are processed in parallel.

First, the flow of audio processing will be described.
In S504, voices of a plurality of conference attendees (for example, attendees A, B, C, and D) are collected, converted into digital voice signals, and recorded as voice data. In subsequent S505, the speech segment and the non-speech segment of each attendee are detected by analyzing the digital audio signal and detecting the delimiter of each attendee's speech. For each speaking section, the speaker is specified, and for the non-speaking section, the status of the section (silence, applause, noise, etc.) is specified.

  In the subsequent S506, the speech section is analyzed, and as a result, it is classified into atmospheres such as “laughter”, “anger”, “dark”. This emotion analysis can be realized, for example, by applying the technique described in Patent Document 5 described above. Note that the storage of voice data, voice recognition, and emotion classification can be simultaneously performed in parallel.

Next, the flow of reference material processing will be described. The minutes generating apparatus 101 is also used as a terminal for displaying presentation materials. Therefore, when a material in the material column is selected by clicking or the like, it is activated and displayed by an appropriate application. At this time, in S507, a file activated by an access command or the like is detected, and the reference path is stored.
In step S508, the number of reference pages is further acquired by the access command, and reference page information is stored.

The voice data is further converted into text at S509, and subsequently updated and added as text-based minutes together with identification information and reference material information of each attendee at S510.
In S511, the respective data stored by the voice data processing and the reference material processing are displayed along with the icons of the reference material and the icons indicating the state of speech along the time axis for each attendee on the minutes.

Next, the reproduction operation will be described.
A database necessary for reproducing the minutes is stored in the storage area of the minutes generating apparatus 101 and can be reproduced as needed. When the reproduction is started, the minutes as shown in FIG. 4 are displayed.

  In FIG. 4, 401 is a link to Mr. A's material, and 402 is a link to Mr. B's bright atmosphere. Also, 403 is a link to Mr. C's dark atmosphere, 404 is a link to Mr. A's angry atmosphere, and 405 is a link to Mr. D's laughing atmosphere. . Further, 406 indicates a voiced section, and 407 indicates a silent section.

  Reference numeral 408 denotes an icon that links to a text-based minutes. When the operator clicks the reference material icon or audio icon of a desired section with a mouse or the like, the material referred to in the corresponding section is reproduced and displayed, and the audio at the same time is reproduced. This playback can be stopped by a certain operation (for example, pressing the Esc key). After the reproduction is stopped, the operator can continue to read the minutes by designating a desired reproduction section.

  According to the above, it is possible to express the period of the speech time and the reference time in the time series of the audio icon indicating the atmosphere of the conference and the icon indicating the reference material, as information on the conference that has been performed. Furthermore, the voice icon can highlight a change point of the voice situation that is likely to be a meeting point.

Each icon links to a reference page for audio data and reference material. This makes it possible to grasp the status of the conference at a glance and easily access desired information.
In addition, by clicking a link 408 to a text-based minutes, the minutes can be displayed and viewed.
As described above, since the reproduction of the minutes is performed based on the operation of the viewer, a flowchart for recording is not specified.

[Second Embodiment]
Hereinafter, a second embodiment of the invention will be described with reference to the block diagram of FIG. 6, the diagram showing the minutes template before the start of the conference in FIG. 7, and the diagram showing the minutes after the conference in FIG. Since the configuration diagram of the second embodiment is the same as FIG. 1 which is the configuration diagram of the first embodiment, the description thereof is omitted.

  FIG. 6 is a block diagram of the minutes generation apparatus according to the second embodiment. In the present embodiment, the minutes generating device includes an audio processing unit 61, a reference material processing unit 62, a text minutes generating unit 63, and an operation / display processing unit 64. The storage means in each storage unit is realized by a CPU, RAM, ROM, hard disk drive, etc. (not shown).

  First, before the meeting, the person in charge of the minutes activates the minutes generation device, and the meeting information field 701 of the minutes template as shown in FIG. 7, the meeting information in the patient name field 702, the patient name in the document field 703. The attendees are registered in the attendee column 704 for the materials of each patient. This minutes template is characterized in that the vertical axis is not for each attendee but for each item to be discussed.

  In this example, a pre-operative conference in a hospital is assumed, and the vertical axis is the patient name. When these preparations are complete and the conference can be started, the conference start button 706 is pressed. Thereby, the voice processing and the reference material processing are continued until the conference end button 707 is pressed.

Next, each process will be described with reference to FIG.
The sound processing unit 61 will be described. When the conference start button 706 is pressed, recording of audio data is started. Since the sound collection unit 601 to the reproduction unit 605 of the sound processing unit are the same as the processing of the sound collection unit 201 to the reproduction unit 205 illustrated in FIG. 2 in the first embodiment, description thereof is omitted.

Next, the reference material processing unit 62 will be described. Since the reference material path storage unit 606 to the reference page section information storage unit 607 are the same as the processing of the reference material path storage unit 206 to the reference page section information storage unit 207 described in FIG. To do.
Next, the text minutes generation unit 63 will be described. Since the voice / text conversion unit 611 to the minutes addition / storage unit 612 are the same as the processing of the voice / text conversion unit 211 to the minutes addition / storage unit 212 described in FIG. Omitted.

  Data converted to text by the voice / text conversion unit 611 is detected by a keyword detection unit 613 by voice recognition of a pre-registered start keyword (for example, “summarization starts from now”). Then, using this as a trigger, display control is performed in which subsequent statements are displayed as text in the summary column for each patient.

  Further, an end keyword registered in advance (for example, “This will end summarization”) is detected by voice recognition, and this function is stopped until a subsequent start keyword is detected. As a result, the decision items in the conference can be reconfirmed and shared by all the conference participants, and the recognition difference can be avoided, and the decision items can be known at a glance after the conference.

Next, the operation / display processing unit 64 will be described. Since the operation unit 608 to the display unit 610 are the same as the processing of the operation unit 208 to the display unit 210 illustrated in FIG. 2 in the first embodiment, description thereof will be omitted.
FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a screen of a list of remarks / reference materials displayed on the display of the minutes generating device. In this display, the patient is placed on the vertical axis, the elapsed time is placed on the horizontal axis, and a band-shaped icon having a length corresponding to the reference time of the reference material is displayed. Subdivided, icons indicating the situation are arranged by patient and attendee. The icon indicating the voice data can determine which patient's time axis should be displayed depending on which patient-specific material is referenced.

  In many cases, when the situation in the meeting changes is an important discussion in the meeting, it is also possible to display this change with an easy-to-understand icon. For example, an icon indicating that is highlighted at a point where the atmosphere changes from a calm atmosphere to a noisy atmosphere. Contrary to this, highlighting is similarly performed in the transition from a noisy atmosphere to silence. As a result, the change in the situation at the conference can be seen at a glance.

Next, processing corresponding to the minutes generation of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
First, in S901, initial settings necessary for displaying a template of minutes are performed. Here, registration of conference information, patients, principals, reference materials, etc. is performed. After the initial setting, the conference start button is pressed in step S902 that follows when the conference preparation is ready.
Since the subsequent processing of S903 to S911 is the same as the processing of S503 to S511 described in FIG. 5 in the first embodiment described above, description thereof will be omitted.

  In S912, a start keyword registered in advance (for example, “summarization starts from now”) is detected by voice recognition. If it is recognized as a start keyword (“Yes” in S912), the text is written in the summary column using this as a trigger in subsequent S913.

If it is not recognized as a start keyword (“No” in S912), an end keyword registered in advance in S914 (for example, “This will end summarization”) is detected by voice recognition. If it is recognized as an end keyword (“Yes” in S914), the text display in the summary column is stopped in subsequent S915. If it is not recognized as an end keyword (“No” in S914), the process returns to S903.
Since the reproduction operation is the same as that of the first embodiment, description thereof is omitted.

  According to the above, it is possible to express the period of the speech time and the reference time in the time series of the audio icon indicating the atmosphere of the conference and the icon indicating the reference material as information on the conference that has been performed. Furthermore, the voice icon can highlight a change point of the voice situation that is likely to be a meeting point.

Each icon links to a reference page for audio data and reference material. This makes it possible to grasp the status of the conference at a glance and easily access desired information.
Furthermore, it is useful for reconfirmation and sharing of information by displaying a summary for each patient.
The minutes can be displayed and viewed by clicking the link to the text-based minutes.

(Other embodiments)
The present invention can also be realized by executing the following processing. That is, software (computer program) that realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied to a system or apparatus via a network or various computer-readable storage media. Then, the computer (or CPU, MPU, etc.) of the system or apparatus reads out and executes the program.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 201 Sound collecting part, 202 Voice data storage part, 203 Voice recognition part, 204 Emotion classification part, 205 Playback part, 206 Reference material path storage part, 207 Reference page section information storage part, 208 Operation part, 209 Display / reproduction control part , 210 Display section, 211 Voice / text conversion section, 212 Minutes record / storage section

Claims (13)

A minutes generation device for creating and playing back minutes of a meeting,
Voice processing means for collecting voices of attendees of the conference by a microphone, converting voice data obtained by digitizing the collected voices, and storing the voice data in a storage unit;
Analyzing the voice data to identify attendees of the meeting, and voice recognition means for identifying the speech section and non-speech section of each attendee;
Reference material processing means for detecting a material referred to by the attendee when the meeting is being performed, and storing a path of the material and a reference page of the reference material in a storage unit;
Operation means for setting the reference material, inputting conference information, and instructing to reproduce the minutes;
Each data stored in each storage unit by the voice processing unit and the reference material processing unit is displayed in a band along the time axis according to the attendees on the minutes of the meeting. An apparatus for generating a minutes comprising an operation / display processing means for displaying with an icon to be displayed.   2. The minutes generating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising emotion classification means for analyzing the speech section and the non-speech section and classifying the result as a meeting atmosphere.   The operation / display processing means displays on the display device a minutes template having a meeting information field for inputting meeting information, an attendee field for inputting attendee names, and a material field for registering materials for each attendee. The minutes generating device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized by the above-mentioned.   The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a reproduction unit that reproduces audio in response to an instruction from the operation / display processing unit; and a display unit that displays data in the conference and minutes during or after the conference. The minutes generating device given in any 1 paragraph of 1-3.   5. The voice / text converting means for converting the voice data into text, and the minutes adding / storing means for adding / storing the text as minutes. Minutes generator described in 1.   6. The minutes generating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising keyword detecting means for detecting a keyword from the voice data and performing display control.   The operation / display processing means displays the minutes of audio information along with the icon indicating the atmosphere along the time axis for a length corresponding to the time, and also refers to the minutes together with the icon indicating the material referred to along the time axis. Only the length according to time is displayed, The minutes production | generation apparatus in any one of Claims 1-6 characterized by the above-mentioned.   The minutes generation apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the operation / display processing unit highlights a change point of a voice situation.   The minutes generation apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the operation / display processing means displays the speech status and the reference material in a band shape for each attendee along the time axis.   7. The minutes generating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operation / display processing means displays a utterance status and a reference material in a band shape according to items to be discussed along a time axis. . A minutes generation method for creating and replaying meeting minutes,
A voice processing step of collecting voice of attendees of the conference by a microphone, converting voice data obtained by digitizing the collected voice and storing the voice data in a storage unit;
Analyzing the voice data to identify attendees of the meeting, and a voice recognition step of identifying the speech section and non-speech section of each attendee,
A reference material processing step of detecting a material referred to by an attendee when the meeting is being performed, and storing a path of the material and a reference page of the reference material in a storage unit;
An operation process for setting the reference material, inputting conference information, and instructing the reproduction of the minutes;
Each data stored in each storage unit in the voice processing step and the reference material processing step is a reference material, a reference page icon and a speech status in a band along the time axis by attendee on the minutes of the meeting. A minutes generating method comprising: an operation / display processing step for displaying together with an icon to be displayed. A program that causes a computer to execute each process of a minutes generation method for creating and playing a meeting minutes,
A voice processing step of collecting voice of attendees of the conference by a microphone, converting voice data obtained by digitizing the collected voice and storing the voice data in a storage unit;
Analyzing the voice data to identify attendees of the meeting, and a voice recognition step of identifying the speech section and non-speech section of each attendee,
A reference material processing step of detecting a material referred to by an attendee when the meeting is being performed, and storing a path of the material and a reference page of the reference material in a storage unit;
An operation process for setting the reference material, inputting conference information, and instructing the reproduction of the minutes;
Each data stored in each storage unit in the voice processing step and the reference material processing step is a reference material, a reference page icon and a speech status in a band along the time axis by attendee on the minutes of the meeting. A program for causing a computer to execute an operation / display processing step to be displayed together with an icon to be displayed.   A computer-readable storage medium storing the program according to claim 12.

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