JPH04362769A - Automatic preparation device for electronic conference report - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To much improve the effect of a conference by enabling the preparation of the conference report automatically and in a short time in an electronic conference system utilizing electronic media. CONSTITUTION:This device is an automatic preparation device of an electronic conference report preparing the report in a conference system utilizing electronic media. The device is provided with a voice recognition device 21 performing the voice recognition of the speeches of the participators of a conference, a conversion device 22 converting the voice information recognized in the voice recognition device 21 into character information, a recording device 23 recording the character information converted by the conversion device 22 and a reproduction and correction device 25 reproducing the recorded character information in the recording device 23 on a display 24 and making conference report information by correcting the content.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

[Industrial Application Field] The present invention is an electronic conference system that uses so-called electronic media, such as audio teleconferences, video conferences, and electronic conferences using personal computers, to automatically create meeting minutes in a short time. The present invention relates to an automatic electronic conference minutes creation device.

0002

[Prior Art] Until now, OA has been used to create meeting minutes.
(Electronic) A person in charge of creating minutes uses a word processor, etc. to create the minutes again after the meeting, based on materials handwritten by the organizer or moderator during the meeting using a board or document camera. . As described above, even though conference systems using electronic media have been developed and are becoming more popular, the current situation is that the preparation of minutes, which is important as the conclusion of a meeting, is still done using old-fashioned methods.

0003

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] With the existing method of creating minutes as described above, it is virtually impossible to distribute the minutes to conference participants immediately after the meeting ends. Furthermore, the contents of the minutes may be questionable and incomplete due to personal misunderstandings or misunderstandings on the part of the person who prepared them, or due to arbitrary reasons. Furthermore, there is also the problem that a person who is creating minutes during a meeting has difficulty actively participating in the meeting or speaking out because of this work.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and its purpose is to automatically create meeting minutes in a short time in a conference system using electronic media. The goal is to make the meeting even more effective.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems] FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the principle of the present invention. The automatic electronic conference minutes creation device according to the present invention is, as one form, an electronic conference minutes automatic creation device that creates minutes in a conference system using electronic media, and includes speech recognition of conference participants' comments. a speech recognition device 21 that converts speech information recognized by the speech recognition device 21 into text information;
2, and a reproduction/correction device 25 for reproducing the recorded character information of the recording device 23 on a display 24 and modifying the content to make it minutes information. It is.

[0006] Furthermore, as another form of the electronic conference minutes automatic creation device according to the present invention, in the electronic conference minutes automatic creation device of the above-mentioned form, the minutes information created by the reproduction/correction device 25 is transmitted to the conference participants. Alternatively, it further includes a communication device 26 that notifies a specific party registered in advance.

[0007] Furthermore, as another form of the electronic conference minutes automatic creation device according to the present invention, in the electronic conference minutes automatic creation device of each of the above-mentioned forms, the minutes information created by the reproduction correction device 25 is stored in a database. The system further includes a database device 27 for configuring the database.

[0008]

[Operation] In the electronic conference minutes automatic creation device according to the present invention, the voice recognition device 21 recognizes the speech of conference participants, and the conversion device 22 converts the recognized voice information into character information. Recording device 2
Record according to 3. As a result, as the meeting progresses, the contents of each participant's statements are created as minutes in the form of text information. Then, during or after the meeting, the reproduction/correction device 25 reproduces this minutes information on the display 24 and corrects its contents to make it finalized minutes information.

[0009] This minutes information can be notified to conference participants or specific parties registered in advance by the communication device 26 after the conference ends, and these people can view the minutes of the just-held conference in real time. It becomes possible to obtain it.

[0010] Also, this minutes information is stored in the database device 2.
7 and converted into a database. This makes it possible to search the meeting minutes at any time as needed.

[0011]

Embodiments Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 shows an electronic conference minutes automatic creation device as an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 2, 11 to 1
Microphones n are used to collect speech from conference participants, and each microphone is housed in the voice recognition device 2. It is assumed that the microphones 11 to 1n are housed in the voice recognition device 2 via a communication line in the case of a telephone conference system or the like.

The speech recognition device 2 includes microphones 11 to 1.
This is a device that performs voice recognition on the voice information collected by n, and the recognition result is sent to the signal conversion device 3, where the voice information is converted into text information. The character information converted by the signal conversion device 3 is sent to the signal recording device 4 and recorded. The signal recording device 4 has an external storage device 5, and character information is also recorded in this external storage device 5 as necessary.

Reference numeral 6 denotes an information reproducing device, which has a display device 7 and has a function of reproducing character information recorded in the signal recording device 4 and visually displaying it on the display device 7. Also, the editing/proofreading device 8 is this display device 7.
It has the function of editing, proofreading, etc. the character information displayed on the screen and converting it into minutes information.Furthermore, if necessary, this minutes information can be recorded again in the signal recording device 4, this e-mail device 9, or It has a function of sending data to a database device 10 composed of a computer 11.

The e-mail device 9 has a function of notifying conference participants or specific parties registered in advance of minutes information by a broadcast communication function. In addition, the database device creates a database of minutes information determined by confirmation of meeting participants, etc., and can be searched and searched from a terminal whenever necessary.
It has a function that allows reference.

The operation of this embodiment will now be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Here, FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an outline of the operation of the embodiment apparatus.

First, we are waiting for the conference participants to speak (
In step S1), if there is a statement (step S2), the voice information is input to the voice recognition device 2 to start voice recognition (step S3). At this time, in standby mode, an off-the-record function is provided, which prohibits conference participants from recording comments that need to be kept confidential, such as so-called off-the-record information, with a single touch of a switch at hand. In this case, the uttered voice information is not input to the voice recognition device 2.

When the input voice information is voice recognized by the voice recognition device 2 (step S3), the voice recognition result is sent to the signal conversion device 3, where the voice information is converted into text information (step S4). The character information is signal recording device 4
are sequentially recorded (step S5). At this time, if the amount of character information is large, the external storage device 5 is also used for recording. In this way, as the meeting progresses, the contents of the statements made by the meeting participants are recorded in the signal recording device 4 as minutes in the form of text information.

When the meeting ends, the minutes information recorded in the signal recording device 4 is processed when there is a reproduction request (step S6).
) and is reproduced by the information reproducing device 6 (step S8).
, is visually displayed on the display device 7 (step S9
). The content can be edited, proofread, or otherwise corrected by each conference participant as necessary using the editing/composition device 8 (step S10), and finalized minutes are created after confirmation by each conference participant. be done.

As an additional function, by registering the materials to be distributed at the meeting in advance on a floppy disk, etc., the contents can be displayed on the display device 7 according to the speaker's instructions.
It is also possible to have a function that allows the content to be displayed on the screen and to be able to modify and update the content as necessary.

[0020] The finalized minutes can also be recorded again in the signal recording device 4. It is also possible to send the minutes to the e-mail device 9, where they can be broadcasted via e-mail to conference participants or specific parties registered in advance. Furthermore, it is possible to send the meeting minutes to the database device 10 and create a database (step S13), so that the meeting minutes can be immediately searched and referenced from a terminal whenever necessary.

[0021]

As explained above, according to the present invention, it is possible to automatically create minutes in an electronic conference system in a short time, and conference participants can record minutes in real time after the meeting ends. becomes possible to obtain. In addition, since each conference participant can immediately check the contents of the minutes, it is possible to prevent minutes from being created with incomplete contents due to misunderstandings or arbitrary reasons by the minutes creator, as in the past. Furthermore, since the burden on the minutes creator is significantly reduced, that person can also actively participate in the meeting and speak out. In addition, since comments are recorded and saved one by one, it has a psychological effect on meeting participants, reducing unnecessary comments and emotional discussions, and making it possible to manage meetings more efficiently.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the principle of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an automatic electronic conference minutes creation device as an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an overview of the operation of the embodiment device.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 ~ 1n Microphone 2 Voice recognition device 3 Signal conversion device 4 Signal recording device 5 External storage device 6 Information reproducing device 7 Display device 8 Editing/proofreading equipment 9 E-mail device 10 Database device 11 Computer

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An electronic conference minutes automatic creation device for creating minutes in a conference system using electronic media, the device comprising: a voice recognition device (21) that recognizes speech of conference participants; and the voice recognition device. A conversion device (22) that converts the voice information recognized by the converter into text information, a recording device (23) that records the text information converted by the conversion device, and a display (24) that displays the recorded text information of the recording device. An automatic electronic conference minutes creation device comprising a playback/correction device (25) that plays back the contents and also modifies the contents as minutes information. 2. The automatic electronic conference minutes creation according to claim 1, further comprising a communication device (26) for notifying meeting participants or a specific party registered in advance of the minutes information created by the reproduction/correction device. Device. 3. The electronic conference minutes creation device according to claim 1, further comprising a database device (27) that creates a database of the minutes information created by the reproduction/correction device.