METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, CENTER DEVICE, AND PROGRAM FOR VOICE INTERACTION

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To place a voice interaction system, constituted by connecting a speech interaction terminal device and a speech interaction center device through a communication network causing delay, in operation without trouble.

SOLUTION: A terminal is made to perform a speech start end detecting process of detecting the start of input of a voice to a speech input device, a time information imparting process of imparting the time when the speech start end detecting process is performed, a time information imparting process of imparting the reproduction time of an inquiry speech signal from the center device, a process of stopping the speech reproducing operation of the speech reproducing device associatively with the execution of the speech start end detecting process during arrival of the inquiry signal, and a speech voice transmitting process of transmitting a speech signal of spoken contents and the time information imparted through the time information imparting process to the center device.

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