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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
May. 19, 2017
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Osaka University, Suita, JP;
Hiroaki Sugiyama, Soraku-gun, JP;
Toyomi Meguro, Soraku-gun, JP;
Junji Yamato, Soraku-gun, JP;
Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Suita, JP;
Hiroshi Ishiguro, Suita, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Suita, JP;
Abstract
A dialog method carried out by a dialog system includes an agent that performs a dialog with a user. The dialog method carried out by the dialog system includes a speech receiving step in which the dialog system receives input of a user speech which is a speech of the user, a first presentation step in which when the dialog system cannot obtain any recognition result of a desired level corresponding to the user speech, the dialog system presents a speech which does not include any content words as a first agent speech which is a speech of the agent uttered immediately after the user speech and a second speech step in which the dialog system presents a speech generated or selected not based on the user speech as a second agent speech which is a speech of an agent uttered after uttering the first agent speech.