INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

• US 20160343372A1
• Filed: 01/22/2015
• Published: 11/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: MOTOMURA, Akira, OGINO, Masanori
• Application Number:
  US15/114,495
• Publication Number:
  US 20160343372A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/222 Barge in, i.e. overridable guidance for interrupting prompts
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/22 Interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/225 Feedback of the input speech
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/226 using non-speech characteristics

Abstract

In order to provide a natural interaction with a speaker, an interactive robot (100) of the present invention includes: a storage section (12); an input management section (21) that accepts an input voice by storing the input voice in the storage section (12) in association with attribute information; a phrase output section (23) that causes a phrase corresponding to the voice to be presented; and an output necessity determination section (22) that determines, in a case where a second voice is inputted before a first phrase corresponding to a first voice is presented, in accordance with at least one piece of attribute information, whether or not the first phrase needs to be presented.

Claims

1. An information processing device that presents a given phrase to a user in response to a voice uttered by the user, the given phrase including a first phrase and a second phrase, the voice including a first voice and a second voice, the first voice being one that was inputted earlier than the second voice,

the information processing device comprising:

a storage section;

an accepting section that accepts the voice which was inputted, by storing, in the storage section, the voice or a recognition result of the voice in association with attribute information indicative of an attribute of the voice;

a presentation section that presents the given phrase corresponding to the voice accepted by the accepting section; and

a determination section that, in a case where the second voice is inputted before the presentation section presents the first phrase corresponding to the first voice, determines, in accordance with at least one piece of attribute information stored in the storage section, whether or not the first phrase needs to be presented.

2. The information processing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein

in a case where the determination section determines that the first phrase needs to be presented, the determination section determines, in accordance with the at least one piece of attribute information stored in the storage section, whether or not the second phrase corresponding to the second voice needs to be presented.

3. The information processing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the accepting section incorporates, into the attribute information, (i) an input time at which the voice was inputted or (ii) an accepted number of the voice; and

the determination section determines whether or not the given phrase needs to be presented, in accordance with at least one of the input time, the accepted number, and another piece of attribute information which is determined by use of the input time or the accepted number.

4. The information processing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the accepting section incorporates, into the attribute information, speaker information that identifies a speaker who uttered the voice; and

the determination section determines whether or not the given phrase needs to be presented, in accordance with at least one of the speaker information and another piece of attribute information which is determined by use of the speaker information.

5. The information processing device as set forth in claim 3, wherein:

the accepting section further incorporates, into the attribute information, speaker information that identifies a speaker who uttered the voice;

the determination section determines that the given phrase does not need to be presented, in a case where a value, calculated by use of the input time or the accepted number, exceeds a given threshold; and

the determination section changes the given threshold depending on a relational value associated with the speaker information, the relational value numerically indicating a relationship between the information processing device and the speaker.