RESPONDING METHOD USING ATTENTION CALL BY VOICE, AND RESPONDING DEVICE FOR EXECUTION THE METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a voice responding method by which a system can be made user-friendly and the efficiency of a human interface can be improved, and to provided a device for executing the method. ;SOLUTION: An input controller 3 recognizes the action/operation of a user and determines the responding operation of the system based on the outputs of an input device 1 and a sensor 2. An attention voice generator 4 generates an attention voice for calling the attention of the user. This attention voice is a short voice using an interjection, instruction word or word expressing understanding, for example. A response voice generator 5 generates an ordinary response voice to the user. An output controller 9 outputs the outputs of the attention voice generator 4, response voice generator 5 and response image/ response voice generator 6 from an output device 11. Thus, by using the interjection or instruction word, a more natural interaction is enabled between the user and the system.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1999,JPO