Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Satoru Matsunaga

Yoshiki Ohashi

Kazuhiro Kuroyama

Takahiro Yamaguchi

Akira Ishikawa

Kunio Gobara

Kakuya Yamamoto

Yoichi Ikeda

Kentaro Nakai

Tadashi Kunihira

Hiroki Urabe

Hiromu Ikeuchi

Masafumi Torikai

A voice control method according to the present disclosure includes: judging, for each of a plurality of utterance objects capable of outputting voice, whether the utterance object is outputting voice; and based on a result of the judging, causing one or more of the plurality of utterance objects to output voice at one of a timing of immediately outputting voice and a timing of outputting voice after an end of outputting voice by an utterance object which is outputting voice among the plurality of utterance objects.

Voice control method, server apparatus, and utterance object

A voice speech device includes: a display; a selector that causes the display to display one or more candidates for a name to be provided to a target appliance (appliance), and accepts selection of one name among the one or more candidates; a receiver for receiving first state information that is sent from the target appliance and indicates a state of the target appliance; a speech sentence creator that creates a speech sentence for notifying the state of the target appliance, based on the first state information received by the receiver, the speech sentence containing the one name accepted by the selector; and a voice outputter that outputs the speech sentence by voice.

Voice speech device, voice speech system, and voice speech method to create name of a target appliance based on its operation history

An utterance test method for an utterance device, an utterance test server, an utterance test system, and a program perform an utterance test on a test device (). The utterance test system includes at least one utterance device () capable of uttering, a terminal device (), and an utterance test server (). The utterance test server () receives an utterance test start command from the terminal device (), sets at least one utterance device () to be a test device () as a target of an utterance test, sets test content of the utterance test, and causes the test device () to utter the test content.

Utterance test method for utterance device, utterance test server, utterance test system, and program

A control method includes obtaining an information item on operation of a first device from the first device, determining a priority level for the obtained information item according to the content or attribute of the obtained information item, storing the obtained information item in a memory unit in association with the determined priority level, and preferentially transmitting an information item associated with a higher priority level among information items stored in the memory unit to a second device to cause the second device to output the information item associated with the higher priority level by sound, the information items having been obtained in the obtaining.

Control method, controller, and recording medium

Program information is transmitted and received via a communication line, and a scheduling operation can be performed based on the program information via the communication line. For that purpose, a communication system includes a receiving apparatus, a server, and an information processing apparatus which are configured to transmit data to and receive data from one another via the communication line. The information processing apparatus includes an EPG requester and a display EPG receiver. The server includes an EPG request receiver, an EPG request transmitter, an EPG receiver, an EPG converter, and a display EPG transmitter. The receiving apparatus includes an EPG obtainer, an EPG request acceptor, an EPG extractor, and an EPG transmitter.

Communication system, receiving device, server, and communication method

An service association system including, an 'association template' in which service association details are described is prepared in advance; an actual service adaptable to a template instructed by a user is extracted; a specific association operation description is generated by adapting the actual service instructed by the user to the template; and the service is operated in association. As the result, it becomes possible to construct a service association system in which different services can be automatically adapted to the template in addition to the service which simply adapted to the template.

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Osaka, Japan

Satoru Matsunaga