Yamaha Corporation

Daisuke Mitsui

Takayuki Inoue

A speech command generation system includes multiple speech terminals that communicate with each other via a network. Each terminal, which includes a sound pickup device and a speaker. At least one of the terminals converts local picked up sound data to text data, while delaying outputting of the sound data to a remotely communicating terminal, and determines whether the text data includes a trigger word. When the text data includes the trigger word, the outputting of the sound data to the remotely communicating terminal is inhibited.

Speech terminal, speech command generation system, and control method for a speech command generation system

Provided is a method of controlling an image and sound pickup device, which is includes obtaining a plurality of audio signals and a participant image, which shows a plurality of participants, and generating location information about a sound source location by using comparison information about a comparison among the plurality of audio signals and face recognition that is performed on the participant image; and generating an estimated utterer image, which displays an estimated utterer, by using the location information.

Image and sound pickup device, sound pickup control system, method of controlling image and sound pickup device, and method of controlling sound pickup control system

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Daisuke Mitsui