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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2022
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 induce a dialogue to a topic that a dialogue system tries to present. A dialogue systempresents a first utterance which is a certain utterance and a target utterance related to the first utterance to a user. A humanoid robot-presents the first utterance. A microphone-receives a user utterance of the userafter the first utterance. A humanoid robot-presents at least one topic-inducing utterance for inducing the topic to the target utterance based on a recognition result of the user utterance and an utterance sentence of the target utterance after the user utterance. The humanoid robot-presents the target utterance after the topic-inducing utterance.