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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2018
Applicant:
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Inventor:
Hiraku Kayama, Hamamatsu, JP;
Assignee:
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/00 (2006.01); G10L 25/90 (2013.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G10L 13/10 (2013.01); G10L 15/02 (2006.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 25/48 (2013.01); G10L 21/013 (2013.01); G10L 13/033 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 25/90 (2013.01); G10L 13/00 (2013.01); G10L 13/10 (2013.01); G10L 15/02 (2013.01); G10L 15/1807 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 25/48 (2013.01); G10L 13/0335 (2013.01); G10L 21/013 (2013.01);
Abstract
A voice interaction apparatus acquires a speech signal indicative of a speech sound, identifies a series of pitches of the speech sound from the speech signal, and causes a reproduction device to reproduce a response voice of pitches controlled in accordance with the lowest pitch of the pitches identified during a tailing section proximate to an end point within the speech sound.