Information processing method and non-temporary storage medium for system to control at least one device through dialog with user

A method to be executed at least in part in a second computer in a server, the second computer being communicable via a network with a first computer for controlling at least one device through dialog with a user, the method comprising:

• acquiring, from the first computer via the network, first text string information generated from first voice information indicating the voice of the user input from a microphone, when a first database on a side of the first computer does not include a piece of text string information matched with the first text string information;
• outputting, to the first computer via the network, first semantic information and/or a control command corresponding to the first semantic information, when, by referencing a second database stored in the server, specifying a piece of text string information matched with the first text string information and specifying the first semantic information associated with the specified piece of text string information;
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• outputting, to the first computer via the network, second text string information and/or second voice information generated from the second text string information, the second text string information being registered and associated with the first semantic information in the first database, the second voice information being information to be output to a speaker.

A method to be executed at least in part in a computer for controlling at least one device through dialog with a user, the method comprising:

• acquiring first voice information indicating the voice of the user input from a microphone;
• in a case where the first voice information includes a first phrase,
• outputting, to the at least one device, a control command for causing the at least one device to execute an operation at a time point when a first processing time has elapsed from the acquisition of the first voice information, and
• outputting, to a speaker, second voice information for notifying the user of a second phrase that is different from but synonymous, for the computer, with the first phrase;
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• in a case where the first voice information includes the second phrase,
• outputting, to the at least one device, the control command for causing the at least one device to execute the operation at a time point when a second processing time has elapsed from the acquisition of the first voice information, the second processing time being shorter than the first processing time.