Dialog supporting device

Abstract

A conversation support apparatus for supporting conversation so as to quickly end conversation by reducing speeches based on misunderstanding or hasty conclusion. The conversation support apparatus comprises an example database (101) holding examples used for conversation, a speech receiving section (102) for receiving a speech of a user and outputting it as speech information, an example selecting section (103) for sequentially selecting examples contained in the example database (101) and most similar to the speech information and outputting examples corresponding to the selected examples, a speech difference computing section (105) for computing the difference between the speech information and each selected example and outputting the difference information, a transmitting section (104) for transmitting the outputted examples and the difference information to a conversation support apparatus of the interlocutor user, a receiving section (106) for receiving the examples and the difference information transmitted from the conversation support apparatus of the interlocutor user, and a speech output section (107) for outputting the received examples and the difference information.

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Technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a dialogue support device that supports human-to-human dialogue. Background technique [0002] In the past, translation devices have been developed to support conversations in different languages ​​when talking to locals when traveling overseas. As a representative translation device, there is a translation device that is installed in a small information processing device such as a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) based on examples or example sentences. In order to cover general travel conversations, devices like this have thousands of example sentences. However, the user can select a desired example sentence visually from the example sentence list, but there is still a problem in convenience in actual use, that is, a problem in usability. In particular, when the display unit for viewing the example sentence table is too small and the number of example sentences that can be viewed at the same time is small, the problem of us...

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Problems solved by technology

[0006] However, although the selection time of an example sentence can be shortened by the method described in Patent Document 1, the time difference from the selection time of a certain example sentence to the selection time of the next example sentence cannot be made zero.

According to this, there is actually a problem that the number of speeches due to misunderstandings or rash judgments increases, and as a result, the time required to complete the dialogue increases

That is, even if the time required to select an example sentence is shortened, utterances due to misunderstandings or rash judgments increase, and as a result, the time required to complete the dialogue increases

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