| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a speech recognition robot and a control method for the speech recognition robot, capable of making a speaker understand a cause of failure of the speech recognition, when the speech recognition fails. <P>SOLUTION: The speech recognition robot includes: a receiving section for receiving speech spoken by the speaker; a speech recognition section for recognizing contents of the received speech; an imaging section for taking an image in a direction which the speech is received, to obtain the taken image as an image data; a face detecting section for detecting a face of the speaker who exists in the taken image; an extracting section for extracting motion of a specified part from the detected face; a determining section for determining a speech receiving status based on the motion of the extracted specified part; and an output section for outputting a warning signal based on the determined speech receiving status, when the speech recognition fails. The warning signal which makes the speaker understand the cause of failure of the speech recognition is output, by assuring that the received speech is surely spoken by the speaker. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT |
