| CPC G10L 25/51 (2013.01) [G06F 3/14 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01)] | 17 Claims |

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1. A voice conference apparatus that provides a plurality of voice conferences via a network, the voice conference apparatus comprising:
a voice conference section that transmits and receives a sound generated in each of the plurality of voice conferences to and from a plurality of user terminals used by a plurality of users participating in the voice conference;
a sound analyzing section that analyzes the sound generated in each of the plurality of voice conferences; and
a display control section that causes an administrator terminal used by an administrator administering the plurality of voice conferences to display a result of the analysis, by the sound analyzing section, of the sound generated in each of the plurality of voice conferences, in association with the voice conference, wherein
the sound analyzing section performs the analysis by comparing the sound generated in each of the plurality of voice conferences with a previously acquired sound pattern or a model sound pattern, and
outputs, as the result of the analysis, information corresponding to a difference between an utterance amount of each of the plurality of users in the sound generated in each of the plurality of voice conferences and an utterance amount represented by the previously acquired sound pattern or the model sound pattern.
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