VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICE FOR VEHICLE

• US 20160267909A1
• Filed: 11/03/2014
• Published: 09/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: HANAOKA, Kensuke
• Application Number:
  US15/032,474
• Publication Number:
  US 20160267909A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0373 Voice control in general G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/01 Assessment or evaluation of speech recognition systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/02 Feature extraction for speech recognition; Selection of recognition unit
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/065 Adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/226 using non-speech characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/228 of application context

Abstract

A voice recognition device includes a learning unit that learns a relationship between contents of the voice and information on the vehicle by storing recognized contents of the voice and the vehicle information at the time the voice is recognized in association with each other in a storage unit; a processing unit that calculates a recognition accuracy of the uttered voice each time an utterance is made; and an estimation unit that reads the vehicle information under a condition where the value calculated by the processing unit is less than a threshold. In a case where the vehicle information that has been read is in the storage unit, the contents of the voice associated with the vehicle information are estimated as contents of the voice. In a case where the estimation unit estimates contents of the voice, the control unit controls the vehicle on the basis of the estimated contents.

Claims

1. A voice recognition device for a vehicle which is installed on the vehicle and equipped with a control unit that controls the vehicle on the basis of contents of a voice recognized from an utterance, the voice recognition device comprising:

a learning unit that learns a relationship between the contents of a voice and information on the vehicle by storing the contents of the voice in a vehicle information storage unit in association with the vehicle information at the time the voice is recognized;

a recognition accuracy calculation unit that calculates a recognition accuracy of the voice each time the voice recognition is performed; and

an utterance estimation unit that reads the vehicle information in a case where the recognition accuracy is lower than a predetermined threshold and estimates that the contents of the voice associated with the vehicle information are contents of an uttered voice when the vehicle information that has been read is in the vehicle information storage unit, wherein

the control unit controls the vehicle on the basis of the contents of the voice in a case where the contents of the voice are estimated by the utterance estimation unit.

2. The voice recognition device for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein, under a condition where the recognition accuracy calculated by the recognition accuracy calculation unit is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold, the learning unit stores the recognized contents of the voice and the vehicle information at this time in association with each other in the vehicle information storage unit.

3. The voice recognition device for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein,

under a condition where the recognition accuracy calculated by the recognition accuracy calculation unit is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold, the learning unit stores the recognized contents of the voice and the vehicle information over a constant period of time before and after the condition is satisfied in association with each other in the vehicle information storage unit.

4. The voice recognition device for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein

the learning unit prohibits the storage of the vehicle information in the vehicle information storage unit, under a condition where the recognition accuracy calculated by the recognition accuracy calculation unit is less than the predetermined threshold.

5. The voice recognition device for a vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising:

an utterance subject identification unit that identifies an utterance subject of the voice, wherein

the learning unit stores the vehicle information in the vehicle information storage unit for each utterance subject identified by the utterance subject identification unit; and

the utterance estimation unit retrieves the utterance subject identified by the utterance subject identification unit from the vehicle information storage unit and estimates the contents of the voice corresponding to the utterance subject, in a case where the uttered contents of the voice are estimated on the basis of the vehicle information.

6. A voice recognition device for a vehicle which is installed on the vehicle and equipped with a control unit that controls the vehicle on the basis of contents of a voice recognized from an utterance, the voice recognition device comprising:

a vehicle information storage unit that stores the contents of the voice and vehicle information in association with each other;

a recognition accuracy calculation unit that calculates a recognition accuracy of the uttered voice each time the voice recognition is performed; and

an utterance estimation unit that reads the vehicle information in a case where the recognition accuracy is lower than a predetermined threshold and estimates that the contents of the voice associated with the vehicle information are contents of an uttered voice when the vehicle information that has been read is in the vehicle information storage unit, wherein

in a case where the contents of the voice are estimated by the utterance estimation unit, the control unit controls the vehicle on the basis of the estimated contents of the voice.

7. The voice recognition device for a vehicle according to claim 6, further comprising:

an utterance subject identification unit that identifies an utterance subject of the voice, wherein

the vehicle information storage unit stores the vehicle information for each utterance subject in association with the contents of the voice thereof, and

the utterance estimation unit retrieves the utterance subject identified by the utterance subject identification unit from the vehicle information storage unit and estimates the contents of the voice corresponding to the utterance subject, in a case where the uttered voice contents are estimated on the basis of the vehicle information.