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VOICE INPUT SUPPORT DEVICE, METHOD THEREOF, PROGRAM THEREOF, RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING THE PROGRAM, AND NAVIGATION DEVICE

  • US 20090306989A1
  • Filed: 03/29/2007
  • Published: 12/10/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2006
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A voice-input assisting unit for use in a navigator, the navigator navigating a traveling of a movable body from a departure point to a destination point based on map information, a setting item for navigating the movable body being inputted into the navigator through a voice input, the voice-input assisting unit comprising:

  • a conversion database having a table structure that stores a plurality of conversion information, the plurality of conversion information each having one data structure and being formed by associating a setting-name information about a name of the setting item with a plurality of related-word information about related words related to a content of the setting item of the setting-name information;

    a setting-item database having a table structure that stores a plurality of setting-item information, the plurality of setting-item information each having one data structure and being formed by associating the setting-name information, set-content information and operation-content information together, the set-content information being information about the content of the setting item of the setting-name information, the operation-content information being information about a content of an operation for executing the setting item of the setting-name information;

    an audio-signal acquirer that acquires an audio signal corresponding to a voice;

    a setting-item selector that, based on the conversion database and the audio signal, computes a probability of the setting item to match the voice and retrieves the setting item in a manner corresponding to the probability;

    a related-item selector that retrieves a setting-item information corresponding to the retrieved setting item based on the setting-item database and retrieves a related other setting item based on the set-content information and the operation-content information of the setting-item information; and

    a notification controller that associates the setting item selected by the setting-item selector with the related other setting item retrieved by the related-item selector and controls a notifier to notify a notification for requesting that at least one of the setting item and the related other setting item be confirmed.

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