JP2003157224A5

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Publication number: JP2003157224A5
Application number: JP2001355614A
Authority: JP
Filing date: 2001-11-21
Publication date: 2005-06-09
Anticipated expiration: 2021-11-21

Description

【０００２】
【従来の技術】
従来の対話支援装置として、特開平９−８１１８４号公報で開示された技術が知られている。この対話支援装置は、異種言語を用いる人間同士の対話を支援するもので、マイクロフォンから入力された相手の音声を認識部で認識するとともに、その認識語から連想される関連語を連想辞書から検索して、認識語と関連語をそれぞれ訳語付きで表示部に表示する。これにより、相手の発話内容の理解および相手の発話に対する応答を支援できる。 [0002]
[Prior Art]
As a conventional dialogue support device, a technique disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-81184 is known. This dialogue support device is for supporting human dialogues using different languages, recognizes the other party's voice inputted from the microphone by the recognition unit, and searches related words associated from the recognized words from the associative dictionary Then, the recognized word and the related word are displayed on the display unit with the translated word. This makes it possible to support the understanding of the other's speech content and the response to the other's speech.

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【課題を解決するための手段】
前記目的を達成するために、本願第１の発明は、相手のプロフィールを取得するためのプロフィール取得部と、前記取得された相手のプロフィールを保持するプロフィール保持部と、利用者が相手と対話する際に、その相手のプロフィールを前記プロフィール保持部から取得して表示部に表示するように制御する制御手段とを備えた対話支援装置である。ここで、対話には、通信回線を介するものと介さないものとがあり、通信回線を介しての対話には、音声によりリアルタイムで行われるものに限らず、文字により、例えば電子メールの送受信の繰り返しにより行われるようなものも含まれる。 [0005]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
To achieve the object, the first invention includes a profile acquiring unit for acquiring their profile, and profile holding section for holding the profile of the acquired partner, the user interacts with the mating And a control unit configured to control to obtain the profile of the other party from the profile holding unit and to display the profile on the display unit. Here, the dialogue includes those via communication line and those not via dialogue, and the dialogue via communication line is not limited to the one performed in real time by voice, and it is possible to send and receive e-mails by letters, for example. It also includes things that are done by repetition.

また、第１、第２実施形態の双方において、プロフィール入力部（通信部）２，２４は、通信を用いずスロットで構成することも可能であり、相手のプロフィールを記憶させたＳＤカードなどの記憶媒体をそのスロットに差し込んで相手のプロフィールを入力してもよい。さらにまた、第１、第２実施形態の双方において、プロフィールを通信するとは、プロフィールを互いに交換する場合のみならず、一方から他方に通知するだけの場合も含む。つまり、利用者が相手と対話を行う場合、利用者は自己のプロフィールを使用しないため、自己プロフィール入力部４は必須でない。
以上詳細に説明したように、本実施形態では、対話をする際に、その相手のプロフィールが表示されるので、対話が途切れたり、話題が陳腐化して対話が途切れそうなときに、利用者は、相手のプロフィールを見て、相手が興味をもっている新たな話題について対話を続けることができる。 In both of the first and second embodiments, the profile input units (communication units) 2 and 24 can be configured as slots without using communication, such as an SD card storing the profile of the other party The storage medium may be inserted into the slot to input the profile of the other party. Furthermore, in both the first and second embodiments, communicating the profiles includes not only exchanging profiles with each other but also notifying only one from the other. That is, when the user interacts with the other party, the user does not use his / her profile, so the self profile input unit 4 is not essential.
As described above in detail, in the present embodiment, when the user interacts, the profile of the other party is displayed. Therefore, when the dialogue is interrupted or the topic becomes obsolete and the dialogue is likely to be interrupted, the user can You can see the other person's profile and continue to talk about new topics that the other person is interested in.

【００２４】
【発明の効果】
以上、本発明は、対話を活発化させ、円滑に継続させるような話題を提示することができる。

[0024]
【Effect of the invention】
As described above, the present invention can present topics that activate and smoothly continue dialogue.

Claims

A profile acquisition unit for acquiring the profile of the other party,
A profile holding unit that holds the acquired partner's profile;
A dialogue support apparatus comprising: control means for controlling to obtain a profile of the other party from the profile holding unit and to display the profile on the display unit when the user interacts with the other party.

In claim 1,
The dialogue between the users is by voice,
A keyword dictionary that holds each item constituting the profile of the other party as a keyword;
A voice recognition unit that recognizes the dialog voice between the users, detects an item held in the keyword dictionary, and notifies the control unit of that fact;
The dialogue support device according to claim 1, wherein the control means controls the item notified from the voice recognition unit to be deleted in the profile of the other party displayed on the display unit or to be displayed separately from other items.

In claim 1 or 2,
A dialogue support apparatus wherein acquisition of the profile of the other party is performed via a communication line.

In claim 1,
Acquisition of the profile of the other party is performed via a communication line,
The dialogue between the users is by e-mail,
The dialogue support device, wherein the control means controls to display a mail already sent to the other party when the profile of the other party is displayed on a display unit.

In any one of claims 1 to 4,
The dialogue support device which, when the control means displays the profile of the other party on a display unit, also displays related information retrieved based on the profile.

A dialogue support system comprising a plurality of dialogue support devices according to any one of claims 1 to 5.

In claim 6,
A dialogue support system comprising a server for acquiring and collectively holding the profile of the user and providing the held profile in response to a request from the control means of the dialogue support device.