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Patent No.:

US 10861458 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 09, 2018

Response sentence generation apparatus, method and program, and voice interaction system

Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;

Inventor:

Narimasa Watanabe, Nagakute, JP;

Assignee:

TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;

Attorney:

Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

Primary Examiner:

Eric Yen

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 25/63 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06F 40/242 (2020.01); G06F 40/56 (2020.01); G10L 15/26 (2006.01); G06F 40/268 (2020.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G06N 3/00 (2006.01); G10L 13/00 (2006.01); G10L 25/90 (2013.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G06F 40/242 (2020.01); G06F 40/268 (2020.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06F 40/56 (2020.01); G10L 15/1807 (2013.01); G10L 15/26 (2013.01); G10L 25/63 (2013.01); G06N 3/008 (2013.01); G10L 13/00 (2013.01); G10L 15/1822 (2013.01); G10L 25/90 (2013.01); G10L 2015/088 (2013.01); G10L 2015/221 (2013.01); G10L 2015/225 (2013.01);
Abstract

A response sentence generation apparatus includes a conversion device for converting an input voice of a user into text information, an extraction device for extracting prosodic information from the input voice, a specifying device for specifying an emotion occurrence word indicating an occurrence of an emotion of the user based on the text information and the prosodic information, and a generation device for selecting a character string including the specified emotion occurrence word from the text information and generating a response sentence by performing predetermined processing on the selected character string.

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