STORAGE MEDIUM, CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD

• Main Authors: YAMAGUCHI, Yohei, MIURA, MASAKI, Nishijima, Masao, Takahashi, Akihiro, TOKUNAGA, SHINGO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.11.2020
• Subjects: ACOUSTICS; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHYSICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

A method includes calculating an activity level of participant in a conference; determining whether to cause a voice output device to perform a speech operation to speak to one of the participants, based on a first level of the entire conference during a first period until a time that is earlier than a current time by a first time, the first level being calculated based on the respective activity levels; and when having determined to cause the voice output device to perform the speech operation, determining a person in the speech operation from among the participants, based on a second level of the entire conference during a second period until a time that is earlier than the current time by a second time longer than the first time, and the respective activity levels of the participants, the second level being calculated based on the respective activity levels of the participants.