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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2001
Kazuo Ishii, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Hiroi, Tokyo, JP;
Wataru Onogi, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Toyoda, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to robot control apparatuses which make a user recognize that speech is accepted. A user's speech input to a microphoneis subjected to speech recognition by a speech recognizerA. Based on the speech recognition result, an action determining unitdetermines subsequent actions to be taken by a robot. At the same time, an echo back unitanalyzes prosodic information of the user's speech input to the microphoneand, based on the prosodic information, generates echo back speech which is prosody-controlled speech. The echo back speech is supplied to a loudspeakerthrough an output controllerand is output from the loudspeaker