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Voice interaction apparatus and voice interaction method

AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsSatoshi Kume, Atsushi Ikeno, Toshihiko Watanabe, Muneaki Shimada, Hayato Sakamoto, Toshifumi Nishijima, Fuminori Kataoka, Hiromi Tonegawa, Norihide Umeyama

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Abstract

A voice interaction apparatus includes: a voice recognizer configured to recognize content of a speech of a user; an extractor configured to extract profile information based on a result of the voice recognition, and to specify which user the profile information is associated with; a storage configured to store the extracted profile information in association with the user; an exchanger configured to exchange profile information with another voice interaction apparatus; and a generator configured to generate a speech sentence to speak to the user based on the profile information of the user.

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Dependent claims

A voice interaction apparatus configured to store profile information of a user for each user, comprising:

a voice recognizer configured to recognize content of a speech of a user;
an extractor configured to extract profile information based on a result of the voice recognition, and to specify which user the profile information is associated with;
a storage configured to store the extracted profile information in association with the user;
an exchanger configured to exchange profile information with another voice interaction apparatus;
a generator configured to generate a speech sentence to speak to the user based on the profile information of the user;
and
a comparator configured to detect a difference between profile information stored in the storage and profile information acquired from the another voice interaction apparatus via the exchanger,
wherein the generator is further configured to generate a speech sentence to speak to the user based on the difference.

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Facts

Application: 15/704,770Filed 14 Sep 2017
Priority: JP 2016-19058629 Sep 2016
Published: US 2018/0090145 A129 Mar 2018
Granted: 4 Jun 2019
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Classification7 codes

G10L 15/22
Speech recognition: procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
G10L 13/033
Methods for producing synthetic speech; Speech synthesisers: voice editing, e.g. manipulating the voice of the synthesiser
G10L 15/30
Constructional details of speech recognition systems: distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network…
G10L 17/22
Speaker identification or verification techniques: interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces

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