Information providing method and information providing apparatus

Abstract

A computer-implemented information providing method includes: storing, at an information providing apparatus, a plurality of pieces of related information in association with a same identification information in a storage device, wherein each of the plurality of the pieces of the related information is representative of a content of a corresponding one of a series of a plurality of speech voices uttered to a first device; and in response to a request from a second device that receives the identification information, causing, at the information providing apparatus, a communication device to transmit to the second device one or more of the plurality of the pieces of the related information associated with the same identification information.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computer-implemented information providing method comprising:
 storing, at an information providing apparatus, a plurality of pieces of related information in association with a same identification information in a storage device, wherein each of the plurality of the pieces of the related information is representative of a content of a corresponding one of a series of a plurality of speech voices uttered to a first device; and   in response to a request from a second device that receives the identification information, causing, at the information providing apparatus, a communication device to transmit to the second device one or more of the plurality of the pieces of the related information associated with the same identification information.   
     
     
         2 . The information providing method according to  claim 1 , further comprising transmitting the identification information from the first device to the second device. 
     
     
         3 . The information providing method according to  claim 1 , further comprising transmitting the identification information to the second device by sound communication by which a sound outputter outputs a sound representative of the identification information, wherein the identification information is transmitted in conjunction with the utterance of each of the plurality of the speech voices. 
     
     
         4 . The information providing method according to  claim 1 , wherein the related information is generated by voice recognition carried out on each of the plurality of the speech voices and machine translation carried out on a recognized text identified by the voice recognition. 
     
     
         5 . The information providing method according to  claim 1 , wherein the related information includes a text in a second language, which is a rendition of, from among a plurality of candidate texts, a candidate text that is similar to a recognized text in a first language identified by voice recognition carried out on each of the plurality of the speech voices, wherein the related information further includes a text in the second language of a variable portion that differs from the candidate text in the recognized text. 
     
     
         6 . The information providing method according to  claim 1 , further comprising storing a piece of related information in association with the identification information in the storage device, wherein the piece of related information is representative of a content of a speech voice uttered to the second device. 
     
     
         7 . The information providing method according to  claim 6 , wherein the related information is generated by voice recognition carried out on the speech voice uttered to the second device and machine translation carried out on a recognized text identified by the voice recognition. 
     
     
         8 . A computer-implemented information providing method, comprising:
 storing, at an information providing apparatus, a plurality of related information series in association with a same identification information in a storage device, wherein each of the plurality of related information series correspond to different languages, wherein each of the plurality of related information series includes a plurality of the pieces of the related information, wherein each of the plurality of pieces of the related information is representative of a content of a corresponding one of a series of a plurality of speech voices uttered to a first device, and wherein each of the plurality of the pieces of the related information is generated by voice recognition carried out on a corresponding one of the plurality of the speech voices and machine translation carried out on a recognized text identified by the voice recognition; and   in response to a request from a second device that receives the identification information, causing, at the information providing apparatus, a communication device to transmit to the second device one or more of the plurality of the pieces of the related information associated with the same identification information and that correspond to a language configured in the second device from among the different languages.   
     
     
         9 . An information providing apparatus comprising:
 at least one processor; and   a memory that is operatively coupled to the at least one processor and that is configured to store instructions executable by the processor, wherein upon execution of the instructions the processor is caused to:   store a plurality of pieces of related information in association with a same identification information in a storage device, wherein each of the plurality of the pieces of the related information is representative of a content of a corresponding one of a plurality of speech voices uttered in sequence to a first device; and   in response to a request from a second device that receives the identification information, cause a communication device to transmit to the second device one or more of the plurality of the pieces of the related information associated with the same identification information.