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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2014
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Masahiro Chiba, Osaka, JP;
Kazunori Shibata, Osaka, JP;
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A speech server (SS) managing one or a plurality of pieces of speech terminal-specifying information (STSI) and user-specifying information (USI), each of pieces of STSI allowing a corresponding one of one or a plurality of speech terminals to be specified, USI being of a user who is capable of causing the corresponding one of the one or a plurality of speech terminals to output speech. The SS receives USI and transmit the one or a plurality of pieces of STSI associated with USI. The SS receives (i) STSI selected from the one or a plurality of pieces of STSI transmitted and (ii) speech information indicative of speech content to be outputted as speech. The SS instructs a speech terminal to output the speech content as speech, the speech terminal being identified among the one or a plurality of speech terminals by STSI received.