Information processing apparatus
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
InventorsShinichi Honda, Megumi Kikuchi, Takashi Satake
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus by which smooth communication with a user by voice can be implemented is provided. The information processing apparatus presents a plurality of choices to the user, recognizes utterance contents of the user for selecting one of the plurality of choices, and specifies the choice selected by the user based on whether or not a phrase included in the recognized utterance contents of the user corresponds to a phrase included in a dictionary corresponding to each of the plurality of choices prepared in advance.
Claims18
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a choice presentation unit configured to present a plurality of choices to a user;
- a speech recognition unit configured to recognize utterance contents of the user for selecting one of the plurality of choices;
- a selection result specification unit configured to specify the choice selected by the user based on whether or not a phrase included in the recognized utterance contents of the user corresponds to a phrase included in a dictionary corresponding to each of the plurality of choices prepared in advance;
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- an outputting unit configured to calculate a feature amount of a sound signal including the utterance of the user to evaluate an emotion of the user and perform outputting according to a result of the evaluation of the emotion and the choice selected by the user.
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a reproduction unit configured to reproduce speech to be presented to a user by voice;
- and
- a speech recognition unit configured to recognize utterance contents of the user, wherein,
- where the speech recognition unit detects the utterance of the user during the reproduction of the speech, the reproduction unit stops the reproduction of the speech.
An information processing method comprising:
- presenting a plurality of choices to a user;
- recognizing utterance contents of the user for selecting one of the plurality of choices;
- specifying a choice selected by the user based on whether or not a phrase included in the recognized utterance contents of the user corresponds to a phrase included in a dictionary corresponding to each of the plurality of choices prepared in advance;
- and
- calculating a feature amount of a sound signal including the utterance of the user to evaluate an emotion of the user and performing outputting according to a result of the evaluation of the emotion and the choice selected by the user.
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A non-transitory, computer-readable information storage medium storing a program, the program when executed by a computer, causing the computer to implement actions, comprising:
- by a choice presentation unit, presenting a plurality of choices to a user;
- by a speech recognition unit, recognizing utterance contents of the user for selecting one of the plurality of choices;
- by a selection result specification unit, specifying the choice selected by the user based on whether or not a phrase included in the recognized utterance contents of the user corresponds to a phrase included in a dictionary corresponding to each of the plurality of choices prepared in advance;
- and
- by an outputting unit, calculating a feature amount of a sound signal including the utterance of the user to evaluate an emotion of the user and performing outputting according to a result of the evaluation of the emotion and the choice selected by the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.