Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Youhei Wakisaka

Atsushi Ikeno

Hiromi Tonegawa

Hitoshi Yamada

Toshifumi Nishijima

Norihide Umeyama

Narimasa Watanabe

Fuminori Kataoka

Tomoya Takatani

Sei Kato

Takuma Minemura

Junichi Ito

A keyword generation apparatus, comprises a vocabulary acquisition unit that acquires a keyword uttered by a first user; a first positional information acquisition unit that acquires first positional information including information representing a location at which the first user has uttered the keyword; a storage unit that stores the first positional information and the keyword in association with each other; a second positional information acquisition unit that acquires second positional information including information representing a current position of a second user; and an extraction unit that extracts a keyword unique to a locality in which the second user is positioned from the storage unit based on the second positional information.

Keyword generation apparatus and keyword generation method

A voice acquisition system includes a plurality of mobile objects each of which includes one or more microphones and is movable around a sound source; a sound source number estimating unit which estimates the number of sound sources in a vicinity of any of the mobile objects; and a control unit which controls positions of the mobile objects, wherein the control unit controls, based on the number of sound sources in a vicinity of a first mobile object, a position of a second mobile object which differs from the first mobile object, and the voice acquisition system acquires voice using both a microphone included in the first mobile object and a microphone included in the second mobile object.

Voice acquisition system and voice acquisition method

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Meguro-ku, Japan

Youhei Wakisaka