Hitachi, Ltd.

Clarion Co

Kenji Nagamatsu

Toshiyuki Ono

Tatsuya Tokunaga

Kenichi Mizuishi

Takashi Sumiyoshi

Yusuke Fujita

Naoki Watanabe

Naoyuki Kanda

Yoshinori Kitahara

Ryota Kamoshida

Masao Ishiguro

Nobuo Nukaga

Kiyoshi Kumagai

Chisa Nagai

Yo Takeuchi

Kenji Ohya

Shuhei Furuya

In order to assist participants in thinking of an idea by acquiring audio data, it is provided a workshop assistance system, which includes a computer having an arithmetic apparatus configured to execute predetermined processing, a storage device coupled to the arithmetic apparatus, and a communication interface coupled to the arithmetic apparatus, the computer being configured to access solved problem case data including information of solved cases that correspond to problem data, the workshop assistance system comprising: a problem processing module configured to search, by the arithmetic apparatus, solved cases based on problem data that is generated from a discussion among participants; and an idea generation module configured to present, by the arithmetic apparatus, idea data including the generated problem data and information of the solved case found in the search to the participants.

Workshop assistance system and workshop assistance method

The invention is directed to a learning-type interactive device which performs voice dialogue with a user and accumulates a result of the voice dialogue as knowledge including: a voice recognition portion which performs voice recognition on an acquired uttered voice of the user and converts the voice into text; an intention understanding portion which analyzes an utterance intention from the text voice-recognized by the voice recognition portion with reference to intention understanding model data learned from intention understanding learning data; an answer generation portion which refers to a QA DB and generates an answer text from the utterance intention analyzed by the intention understanding portion, a knowledge extraction portion which extracts knowledge from the text voice-recognized by the voice recognition portion, the utterance intention, and the answer text, and a knowledge classification portion which classifies the knowledge extracted by the knowledge extraction portion according to characteristics.

Learning-type interactive device

A user of a hands-free phone cannot determine with which speech quality the distant side of communication is listened to, and does not know which action to be required to improve the speech quality. In the case of the present invention, a function of presenting an action to be implemented by the user to improve the speech quality at the opposite party is mounted on the hands-free terminal. For the presentation here, it is assumed that the hands-free terminal according to the present invention has a function of estimating the speech quality at the distant side, a function of estimating an action to be implemented by the user to improve the estimated speech quality, and a function of presenting the estimated action to the user.

Hands-free terminals and hands-free system for cars

The present invention is a speech synthesizer that generates speech data of text including a fixed part and a variable part, in combination with recorded speech and rule-based synthetic speech. The speech synthesizer is a high-quality one in which recorded speech and synthetic speech are concatenated with the discontinuity of timbres and prosodies not perceived. The speech synthesizer includes: a recorded speech database that previously stores recorded speech data including a recorded fixed part; a rule-based synthesizer that generates rule-based synthetic speech data including a variable part and at least part of the fixed part, from received text; a concatenation boundary calculator that a concatenation boundary position in a region in which the recorded speech data and the rule-based synthetic speech data overlap, based on acoustic characteristics of the recorded speech data and the rule-based synthetic speech data that correspond to the text; a concatenative synthesizer that generates synthetic speech data corresponding to the text by concatenating the recorded speech data and the rule-based synthetic speech data that are segmented in the concatenation boundary position.

Speech synthesizer

A stereotypical sentence is synthesized into a voice of an arbitrary speech style. A third party is able to prepare prosody data and a user of a terminal device having a voice synthesizing part can acquire the prosody data. The voice synthesizing method determines a voice-contents identifier to point to a type of voice contents of a stereotypical sentence, prepares a speech style dictionary including speech style and prosody data which correspond to the voice-contents identifier, selects prosody data of the synthesized voice to be generated from the speech style dictionary, and adds the selected prosody data to a voice synthesizeras voice-synthesizer driving data to thereby perform voice synthesis with a specific speech style. Thus, a voice of a stereotypical sentence can be synthesized with an arbitrary speech style.

Voice synthesizing method and voice synthesizer performing the same

Disclosed here is an information providing system for mobile objects. The system obtains information of a moving purpose of the user of each mobile object to provide the user with information matching with the moving purpose. The information providing system comprises route type determining apparatus for determining the type of the current route on which the user is moving, provided information selecting unit for selecting information to be provided to the user according to the route type determined by the route type determining apparatus, and provided information presenting means for presenting the information selected by the provided information selecting unit to the user. Therefore, the user can receive more proper information according to the user's moving purpose at that time, thereby the convenience of the user is improved while the information provider can improve the advertisement effect by transmitting information to more proper users.

Information providing system and information providing apparatus for mobile object

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Fuchu, Japan

Kenji Nagamatsu