Yamaha Corporation

Yumiko Ochi

Hiroyuki Iwase

Takahiro Iwata

Yuki Seto

Shota Moriguchi

Tetsuro Ishida

A terminal apparatus receives identification information for events transmitted sequentially in conjunction with occurrence of events; sequentially identifies estimated time points at which each event is estimated to occur; determines whether progress of the plurality of events has stopped depending on whether it receives identification information for each event at a corresponding estimated time point for each event; in each of a plurality of event groups obtained by temporally dividing events, when an estimated time point is reached for an earliest event among at least one event belonging to each event group, causes a playback device to play related information for the at least one event belonging to each event group, and when progress of events is determined to have stopped, defers update of related information, which the playback device caused to play, and then resumes update of played related information when identification information is received after the determination.

Information processing method and terminal apparatus

An information providing system () has a sound receiver () that receives a guidance voice and generates a sound signal (S); a text identifier () that identifies, from among registered texts representing contents of utterances of different guidance voices, a registered text that is similar to an uttered text (L) that represents a content of an utterance of one of the guidance voices (V), the uttered text having been obtained by analyzing the sound signal (S) by use of speech recognition, and a sound outputter () that transmits distribution information (D) that indicates the registered text identified by the text identifier () to a terminal device capable of presenting to a user (U) guidance information (G) corresponding to the distribution information (D) from among pieces of guidance information (G) that correspond to the respective guidance voices.

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Hong Kong, China

Yumiko Ochi