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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2018
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, JP;
Kyoto University, Kyoto-shi, JP;
Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto, JP;
Katsuya Takanashi, Kyoto, JP;
Ryosuke Nakanishi, Kyoto, JP;
Narimasa Watanabe, Nagakute, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota-shi, JP;
Kyoto University, Kyoto-shi, JP;
Abstract
A voice interaction apparatus incudes voice recognition means for recognizing a voice of a user, response-sentence generation means for generating a response sentence to the voice of the user based on the recognized voice, filler generation means for generating a filler word to be inserted in a conversation, output means for outputting the generated response sentence and the generated filler word, and classification means for classifying the generated response sentence into one of predetermined speech patterns indicating predefined speech types. When the output means outputs, after the user utters a voice subsequent to the first response sentence, the filler word and outputs a second response sentence, the classification means classifies the first response sentence into one of the speech patterns, and the filler generation means generates the filler word based on the speech pattern into which the first response sentence has been classified.