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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2018
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Osaka University, Suita, JP;
Hiroaki Sugiyama, Soraku-gun, JP;
Hiromi Narimatsu, Soraku-gun, JP;
Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Suita, JP;
Takamasa Iio, Suita, JP;
Tsunehiro Arimoto, Suita, JP;
Hiroshi Ishiguro, Suita, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Suita, JP;
Abstract
It is an object of the present invention to provide a dialog technique that can reduce a user's uncomfortable feeling. A dialog systemis a dialog system that conducts a dialog with the user, the dialog system including a presentation partthat presents an action to fill a gap between a user utterance and a response utterance of the dialog system, after it is estimated or determined that the user utterance has ended or after a predicted time at which the user utterance ends, and before the dialog system makes a response utterance to the user utterance.