Information processing device, information processing method, voice output device, and voice output method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsHIRO IWASE, MARI SAITO, SHINICHI KAWANO
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Abstract
The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, a voice output device, and a voice output method that allow a user to hear a speech from a home agent unit regardless of where the user is. The voice output device outputs, on the basis of an image and noise from a predetermined noise source which are obtained in a unit capable of outputting a voice toward a user, information indicating hearing difficulty of a voice from the unit at a position of the user. The present technology can be applied to a household voice assistant device that performs a speech to a user.
Claims18
An information processing device comprising a processing part that outputs, on a basis of an image and noise from a predetermined noise source which are obtained in a unit capable of outputting a voice toward a user, information indicating hearing difficulty of a voice from the unit at a position of the user.
An information processing method comprising a step of outputting, on a basis of an image and noise from a predetermined noise source which are obtained in a unit capable of outputting a voice toward a user, information indicating hearing difficulty of a voice from the unit at a position of the user.
A voice output device comprising a voice output control part that generates, by using information that is generated on a basis of an image and noise from a predetermined noise source which are obtained in an own device and indicates hearing difficulty of a voice from the own device at a position of a user, a parameter that determines a characteristic of the voice to be output toward the user, to control outputting of the voice.
A voice output method comprising a step of generating, by using information that is generated on a basis of an image and noise from a predetermined noise source which are obtained in an own device and indicates hearing difficulty of a voice from the own device at a position of a user, a parameter that determines a characteristic of the voice to be output toward the user, to control outputting of the voice.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.