Sughrue Mion, PLLC
Voice interaction apparatus and voice interaction method
A syntactic analysis unit 104 performs a syntactic analysis for linguistic information on acquired user' speech (hereinafter simply referred to as “user speech”). A non-linguistic information analysis unit 106 analyzes non-linguistic information different from the linguistic information for the acquired user speech. A topic continuation determination unit 110 determines whether a topic of the current conversation should be continued or should be changed to a different topic according to the non-linguistic information analysis result. A response generation unit 120 generates a response according to a result of a determination by the topic continuation determination unit 110. 
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Tatsuro Gabriel Martin Narimasa
Hori Skantze Johansson Watanabe