Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Furhat Robotics Ab

Joakim Gustafson

Tatsuro Hori

Narimasa Watanabe

Martin Johansson

Gabriel Skantze

A syntactic analysis unitperforms a syntactic analysis for linguistic information on acquired user speech. A non-linguistic information analysis unitanalyzes non-linguistic information for the acquired user speech, the non-linguistic information being different from the linguistic information. A filler length determination unitdetermines a length of a filler according to a non-linguistic information analysis result. A filler generation unitgenerates a filler having a length corresponding to a result of a determination by the filler length determination unit. The filler length determination unitdetermines that a long filler should be generated when a syntactic analysis result needs to be used to generate a response and, otherwise, determines that a short filler should be generated. The voice output unitoutputs the response generated by the response generation unitafter outputting the filler.

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Joakim Gustafson