Dialog supporting device

Abstract

A conversation supporting device for supporting a conversation so as to reduce necessary operations to create a speech and to promptly end the conversation overall even if the other person interruptively makes a speech. The conversation supporting device comprises an example database (101) holding examples used in conversations, a speech receiving section (102) for receiving a speech of the user and outputting it as speech information, an example selecting section (103) for extracting candidates of examples from the example database (101) according to the speech information, selecting a desired example specified by the user from the extracted example candidates, and outputting an example corresponding to the specified example, a transmitting section (104) for transmitting the corresponding example to the conversation supporting device of the party user, a receiving section (105) for receiving the example transmitted from the conversation supporting device of the party user, a speech outputting section (106) for outputting the received example, and an example re-evaluating section (107) for re-evaluating the candidates of examples held in the example selecting section (103) according to the example.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a dialogue support device for supporting dialogue between people. Background technique [0002] Traditionally, translation devices have been developed to support conversations in different languages ​​when people talk to locals while traveling overseas. As a representative translation device, there is a translation device installed in a small-sized information processing device such as a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) based on a parallel translation method based on an example or an example sentence. A device like this has thousands of example sentences in order to cover general tourist conversations. However, the user can visually select a desired example sentence from the list of example sentences, but there is still a problem in convenience during actual use, that is, there is a problem in usability. In particular, when the display portion for viewing the list of example sentences is too small and the number of ex...

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[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.

Therefore, there is a problem that, depending on how the translation device is used, in order to output one utterance from the translation device, multiple operations may be required for searching for one example sentence.

That is, since it is possible to reduce the number of example sentence retrieval operations up to the output of the utterance by the translation device, the retrieval operation of the example sentence of the utterance that cannot be output due to other utterances inserted by the other party remains.

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