Sound control apparatus, program, and control method

A method, comprising:

• obtaining a movement signal indicating a gesture of a user;
• determining that a virtual object is present at a position along a relative direction from the user corresponding to a direction that the user faces after the gesture, the virtual object visually depicting an associated application program icon;
• determining, based on the direction that the user faces after the gesture, an email or web application that corresponds to the application program icon;
• executing audio recognition processing for providing a content of recognized audio to the email or web application, the audio recognition processing including:
• collecting, via a microphone, voices uttered by the user while facing the direction corresponding to the relative direction along which the virtual object is present;
• obtaining a recognition of the utterance made by the user facing the corresponding direction;
• issuing, after the determination of the email or web application that corresponds to the application program icon, an audio command, based on the recognized utterance, to the email or web application that corresponds to the application program icon whose associated virtual object is determined to be present at the position along the relative direction from the user corresponding to the direction that the user faces after the gesture;
• and
• providing, to the email or web application and as the content of the recognized audio, a transcription text of the recognized utterance;
• and
• transmitting a message via packet communication, through the email or web application,
• wherein the transmitted message includes the transcription text that contains the recognized utterance, and the email or web application that is corresponds to the application program icon is determined without regard to content of the recognized utterance made by the user.

A non-transitory, computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

• obtaining a movement signal indicating a gesture of a user;
• determining that a virtual object is present at a position along a relative direction from the user corresponding to a direction that the user faces after the gesture, the virtual object visually depicting an associated application program icon;
• determining, based on the direction that the user faces after the gesture, an email or web application that corresponds to the application program icon;
• executing audio recognition processing for providing a content of recognized audio to the email or web application, the audio recognition processing including:
• collecting, via a microphone, voices uttered by the user while facing the direction corresponding to the relative direction along which the virtual object is present;
• obtaining a recognition of the utterance made by the user facing the corresponding direction;
• issuing, after the determination of the email or web application that corresponds to the application program icon, an audio command, based on the recognized utterance, to the email or web application that corresponds to the application program icon whose associated virtual object is determined to be present at the position along the relative direction from the user corresponding to the direction that the user faces after the gesture;
• and
• providing, to the email or web application and as the content of the recognized audio, a transcription text of the recognized utterance;
• and
• transmitting a message via packet communication, through the email or web application,
• wherein the transmitted message includes the transcription text that contains the recognized utterance, and the email or web application that corresponds to the application program icon is determined without regard to content of the recognized utterance made by the user.