Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsYasuhide Hosoda, Yusuke Sakai, Shingo Utsuki
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Abstract
Provided is an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of voice presentation, to a user, of information transmitted from another user around the user. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that performs control to present, to a user by voice, information that has been transmitted from another user in surroundings of the user. The control unit performs control to emphasize and present, by voice, specific information among the information which has been transmitted from another user in surroundings of the user, in accordance with a situation of the user.
Claims20
An information processing apparatus comprising a control unit configured to control presenting, to a user of the information processing apparatus by voice, information that has been transmitted from another user of another information processing apparatus in surroundings of the user, wherein
- the control unit controls an output unit to emphasize and present, by voice, specific information among the information which has been transmitted from the another user in surroundings of the user, in accordance with a situation of the user, wherein the situation of the user comprises one or more of a fatigue degree of the user, a degree of happiness of the user, a degree of excitement of the user, whether the user is in heavy traffic, or whether the user is being crowded.
An information processing method comprising:
- by a processor,
- control presenting to a user of an information processing apparatus by voice, information that has been transmitted from another user of another information processing apparatus in surroundings of the user, wherein
- control comprises controlling an output unit to emphasize and present, by voice, specific information among the information which has been transmitted from the another user in surroundings of the user, in accordance with a situation of the user, wherein the situation of the user comprises one or more of a fatigue degree of the user, a degree of happiness of the user, a degree of excitement of the user, whether the user is in heavy traffic, or whether the user is being crowded.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a computer-readable program for causing a computer to
- function as a control unit to control presenting to a user of an information processing apparatus by voice, information that has been transmitted from another user of another information processing apparatus in surroundings of the user, wherein
- the control unit controls an output unit to emphasize and present, by voice, specific information among the information which has been transmitted from the another user in surroundings of the user, in accordance with a situation of the user, wherein the situation of the user comprises one or more of a fatigue degree of the user, a degree of happiness of the user, a degree of excitement of the user, whether the user is in heavy traffic, or whether the user is being crowded.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.