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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2018
Applicant:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2006.01); F24F 11/88 (2018.01); F24F 110/50 (2018.01); F24F 120/20 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2013.01); F24F 11/88 (2018.01); F24F 2110/50 (2018.01); F24F 2120/20 (2018.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01); G10L 2015/227 (2013.01);
Abstract
An uttered utterance text that is a high priority text to be reported to a user is uttered reliably. The air purifier () includes an utterance text extraction unit () that extracts an utterance text associated with an apparatus state and an utterance control unit () that causes the utterance text extracted by the utterance text extraction unit () to be uttered in descending order of priorities assigned to categories including the utterance text according to one of the priorities that is assigned to one of the categories that includes the utterance text.