| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a speaker state detecting apparatus which can precisely detect a state of at least one of a plurality of speakers having a conversation based on voices in the conversation. <P>SOLUTION: A speaker state detecting apparatus (1) comprises: an audio input unit (2, 3) for acquiring a first voice emanated by a first speaker and a second voice emanated by a second speaker; a speech interval detecting unit (11) for detecting an overlap period between a first speech period of the first speaker included in the first voice and a second speech period of the second speaker included in the second voice, which starts before the first speech period, or an interval between the first speech period and the second speech period; a state information extracting unit (12) for extracting state information representing a state of the first speaker from the first speech period; and a state detecting unit (13, 14, 17) for detecting the state of the first speaker in the first speech period based on the overlap period or the interval and the state information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |
