INPUT ASSISTANCE DEVICE, INPUT ASSSISTANCE METHOD, AND PROGRAM

摘要

[ PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED] Enable emotions of a speaker to be correctly judged and suitable embellishments to be appended when performing speech recognition. [SOLUTION] An input auxiliary apparatus 100 includes an input means 101 to input character strings, an embellishment information retaining means 103 to retain embellishment information on a plurality of postures in a storing means 102 in advance in such a manner as to link each posture with the embellishment information, a posture detecting means 104 to detect the posture, a reading means 105 to read out the embellishment information linked with the posture detected by the posture detecting means 104 from the storing means 102, and an embellishment applying means 106 to apply the embellishment information read out by the reading means 105 to the character strings. Preferably, the input means 101 includes a speech recognition means to recognize voice data based on speech recognition and convert the voice data to the character strings.