摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reproducing device etc., which reproduces adequate data that a user intends through easy operation and can comfortably be used by the user. <P>SOLUTION: A speech recognition part 11 recognizes a natural word inputted to a microphone 23 and an interaction control part 13 makes a musical piece retrieval part 15 perform retrieval from a musical piece index DB 33 according to the recognition result. Even when the retrieval result consists of a plurality of musical pieces, a musical piece is immediately reproduced which is selected by a method of selecting a musical piece closer to conditions that the user requests, a musical piece selected at random, a recently released musical piece, etc. Consequently, even when the user does not determine one musical piece to be reproduced, reproduction is started, so a state wherein no musical piece is reproduced can be shortened. Consequently, comfortableness that the user has can be improved. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO |