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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2008
Yuzuru Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Tadashi Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Fumitaka Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Takayoshi Chikuri, Tokyo, JP;
Yuzuru Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Tadashi Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Fumitaka Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Takayoshi Chikuri, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A speech recognizing apparatus includes a speech start instructing sectionfor instructing to start speech recognition; a speech input sectionfor receiving uttered speech and converting to a speech signal; a speech recognizing sectionfor recognizing the speech on the basis of the speech signal; an utterance start time detecting sectionfor detecting duration from the time when the speech start instructing section instructs to the time when the speech input section delivers the speech signal; an utterance timing deciding sectionfor deciding utterance timing indicating whether the utterance start is quick or slow by comparing the duration detected by the utterance start time detecting section with a prescribed threshold; an interaction control sectionfor determining a content, which is to be shown when exhibiting a recognition result of the speech recognizing section, in accordance with the utterance timing decided; a system response generating sectionfor generating a system response on the basis of the determined content to be shown; and an output sectionandfor outputting the system response generated.