Response sentence generation apparatus, method and program, and voice interaction system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNarimasa WATANABE
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Abstract
To generate a response sentence including contents tailored to user's interest by parroting. A response sentence generation apparatus includes conversion means for converting an input voice of a user into text information, extraction means for extracting prosodic information from the input voice, specifying means for specifying an emotion occurrence word indicating an occurrence of an emotion of the user based on the text information and the prosodic information, and generation means for selecting a character string including the specified emotion occurrence word from the text information and generating a response sentence by performing predetermined processing on the selected character string.
Claims8
A response sentence generation apparatus comprising:
- conversion means for converting an input voice of a user into text information;
- extraction means for extracting prosodic information from the input voice;
- specifying means for specifying an emotion occurrence word indicating an occurrence of an emotion of the user based on the text information and the prosodic information;
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- generation means for selecting a character string including the specified emotion occurrence word from the text information and generating a response sentence by performing predetermined processing on the selected character string.
A response sentence generation method comprising:
- converting an input voice of a user into text information;
- extracting prosodic information from the input voice;
- specifying an emotion occurrence word indicating an occurrence of an emotion of the user based on the text information and the prosodic information;
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- selecting a character string including the specified emotion occurrence word from the text information and generating a response sentence by performing predetermined processing on the selected character string.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a response sentence generation program for causing a computer to execute:
- a process of converting an input voice of a user into text information;
- a process of extracting prosodic information from the input voice;
- a process of specifying an emotion occurrence word indicating an occurrence of an emotion of the user based on the text information and the prosodic information;
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- a process of selecting a character string including the specified emotion occurrence word from the text information and generating a response sentence by performing predetermined processing on the selected character string.
A voice interaction system comprising:
- voice input means for receiving an input voice from a user;
- conversion means for converting the input voice into text information;
- extraction means for extracting prosodic information from the input voice;
- specifying means for specifying an emotion occurrence word indicating an occurrence of an emotion of the user based on the text information and the prosodic information;
- generation means for selecting a character string including the specified emotion occurrence word from the text information and generating a response sentence by performing predetermined processing on the selected character string;
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- voice output means for converting the generated response sentence into a voice and outputting the voice.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.