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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2019
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Ryosuke Nakanishi, Tokyo-to, JP;
Mina Funazukuri, Tokyo-to, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A communication device includes a calculation unit which calculates class probabilities that are probabilities an input speech belongs to a plurality of respective classified classes previously defined as types of speech contents, a plurality of response generation modules provided for respective types of responses each generates a response speech corresponding to the type, a determination unit which selects one of the plurality of response generation modules based on association probabilities and the class probabilities calculated by the calculation unit and determines the response speech generated by the selected response generation module as an output speech to be emitted to the user, the association probabilities being set for each of the plurality of response generation modules, and the association probabilities each indicating a level of association between the response generation module and each of the plurality of classified classes, and an output unit which outputs the output speech.