VOICE INTERACTION SYSTEM

• Main Authors: WATANABE YOTARO, SHIRAKI YOSHIHIKO, ANNO TAKAHIRO, KATAYAMA YOTARO, ISHIHARA NAOKI, UENOYAMA KATSUYA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 13.02.2020
• Subjects: ACOUSTICS; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHYSICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION

To actualize a proper interaction utilizing relationship between a plurality of speakers.SOLUTION: A voice interaction system (1) comprises: acquisition means (20) which acquires conversation contents of a plurality of persons; estimation means (320, 330) which estimate relationship between and feeling states of the plurality of persons on the basis of at least one of the conversation contents of the plurality of persons and image recognition results of the plurality of persons; generation means (360) which generates, based upon the relationship between and the feeling states of the plurality of persons, response contents such that an evaluation value which is higher as the feeling states of the plurality of persons are better is equal to or larger than a predetermined value; and utterance means (40) which utters the response contents.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】複数の発話者間の関係性を利用して適切な対話を実現する。【解決手段】音声対話システム（１）は、複数人の会話内容を取得する取得手段（２０）と、複数人の会話内容及び複数人の画像認識結果の少なくとも一方に基づいて、複数人の関係性及び感情状態を推定する推定手段（３２０，３３０）と、複数人の関係性及び感情状態に基づいて、複数人の感情状態が良好であるほど高くなる評価値が所定値以上になる応答内容を生成する生成手段（３６０）と、応答内容を発話する発話手段（４０）とを備える。【選択図】図１