Nec Corporation

Noritada Yasumoro

Hisashi Hagiwara

Yoshinori Mishina

Masanori Mizoguchi

A voice operation apparatus and a control method thereof that can further improve accuracy of talker identification are provided. Provided is a voice operation apparatus including a talker identification unit that identifies a user as a talker of a voice operation based on voice information and a voice quality model of a user registered in advance, and a voice operation recognition unit that performs voice recognition on the voice information and generates voice operation information, wherein the talker identification unit identifies a talker by using, as auxiliary information, at least one of the voice operation information, position information on a voice operation apparatus, direction information on a talker, distance information on a talker, and time information.

Identifying user of voice operation based on voice information, voice quality model, and auxiliary information

An information processing apparatus comprises an extraction part and a genetic information generation part. The extraction part extracts a phenotypic site(s) representing a genetic phenotype(s) of a living entity from the image. The genetic information generation part generates genetic information of the living entity captured in the image based on the phenotypic site(s) extracted by the extraction part. The image comprises a person image in which a person captured. The genetic information generation part may generate genetic information of the person captured in the person image.

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Noritada Yasumoro