MEDICAL AUDIO INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL AUDIO INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medical audio information processing apparatus which is capable of detecting an event corresponding to a medical act by detecting a specific linguistic expression or the like from conversations, instructions, etc, in a medical treatment room. SOLUTION: An audio processing apparatus 1 has a processing apparatus main body 4 for performing processing such as recording of medical audio information 3, a plurality of microphones 6 for acquiring generated voice as audio information 5, and a liquid crystal display device 8 and a speaker 9 for presenting medical act presentation information 21, as main components. Characteristic linguistic expressions 35 corresponding to medical acts stored in a language database 28 are detected with a prescribed time width to detect events representing principal parts of medical acts. Thus various events generated in consecutively executed medical acts can be detected in real time and be recorded in an event index 2. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT