Information processing apparatus, interactive robot, and control method

A control method for causing an information processing apparatus to perform a process of:

• analyzing utterances that are generated by two users having a conversation through a network and that are detected by interactive robots used respectively by the two users;
• and
• causing the respective interactive robots to output a conversation assisting voice according to the status of the conversation between the two users, the conversation assisting voice being a voice that provides assistance to the conversation.

An interactive robot comprising:

• a serving section configured to serve an alcoholic beverage to a user;
• and
• a conversation control section configured to detect an utterance of the user after the alcoholic beverage is served, transmit voice data of the detected utterance to an information processing apparatus configured to analyze the utterance of the user and the utterance of another user acting as a conversation partner, and output a conversation assisting voice that is transmitted from the information processing apparatus according to a status of a conversation between the two users, the conversation assisting voice being a voice that provides assistance to the conversation.