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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2002
Hideki Shimomura, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiro Fujita, Saitama, JP;
Ugo Di Profio, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a program that allows a conversation to be performed with a user in a natural and human-like manner. Each of response candidate generating modulesthroughgenerates response candidate data based on its own rule, in response to voice data input from the outside through an input moduleand a response selecting module, and calculates a score of the response candidate data based on the response candidate data, the voice data and internal status data recorded in an internal status recording module, and then supplies the score to a response selecting module. In response to the supplied score, the response selecting moduleselects, as response data responsive to the input voice data, one piece of response candidate data, and outputs the one piece of response candidate data through a response output module. The present invention is applicable to a voice interactive apparatus mounted on a robot, etc.