Response output device and system

Abstract

Provided is a more suitable response output technology. The present invention contributes to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) "9. Industry, innovation, and infrastructure" and "11. Sustainable cities and communities." This response output device outputs a response relating to artificial intelligence (AI). The response output device creates a prompt for a question on the basis of a user input through a user interface, transmits the prompt to the AI, acquires an answer from the AI, and outputs the answer to a user through the user interface. When receiving a user input of a next second question while outputting a first answer to a first question, the response output device accepts the second question, stops an output of the first answer, acquires a second answer to the second question, and outputs the second answer to the user.

Claims

1. A response output device for outputting responses related to artificial intelligence (AI), comprising: an interface for receiving user input and outputting responses to the user; and a control unit, wherein the control unit receives user input through the interface, creates a question prompt based on the user input, transmits the prompt to the AI ​​to obtain a response from the AI, and outputs the response to the user through the interface, and if a user input for a second question is received before the output of a first response to a first question is completed, the response output device accepts the second question, stops outputting the first response, obtains a second response to the second question, and outputs it to the user.

2. A response output device according to claim 1, wherein the device records as history how much of the entire response text was output in the output of the first response, and controls the device to generate the second response to the next second question based on the history.

3. A response output device according to claim 1, wherein the processor starts and operates in parallel a main thread for controlling the conversation between the question and the answer, an utterance thread for outputting the answer, and a listening thread for receiving user input of the question.

4. A response output device according to claim 1, wherein the user input of the question is an audio input, and the output of the answer is an audio output.

5. A response output device according to claim 1, wherein the user input of the question is a character input, and the output of the answer is a character output.

6. A response output device according to claim 1, wherein the user input of the question is voice input, and the output of the answer is simultaneous parallel output of voice output and text output.

7. The response output device according to claim 6, wherein the output of the response is such that the output speed of the voice output and the text output are different, causing one to finish first, and if a user input of the second question is received while the first response is being output, the response output device cancels the output of one or both of the voice output and text output of the first response that are currently being output.

8. A response output device according to claim 7, wherein the device records as history how much of the entire response text was output in the output of the first response, controls the device to generate the second response to the next second question based on the history, and determines whether to record the audio output or the text output of the response as the history when recording the history.

9. A response output device according to claim 6, wherein the output of the response is controlled to synchronize the output speed of the voice output and the text output so that the output is the same and the extent to which the output is synchronized.

10. A response output device according to claim 1, wherein the response output device determines whether the content of the user input for the second question is meaningful or meaningless, and if it is meaningless, it does not accept it as the second question, and if it is meaningful, it accepts it as the second question and stops outputting the first answer.

11. A response output device according to claim 10, wherein the device records as history how much of the entire response text was output in the output of the first response, controls the device to generate the second response to the next second question based on the history, determines whether there is a relationship between the content of the first response and the content of the second question, records the history as continuing the topic if there is a relationship, and changing the topic if there is no relationship.

12. A response output system comprising a response output device that outputs a response related to artificial intelligence (AI) and a server equipped with the AI, wherein the response output device comprises an interface that receives user input and outputs a response to the user, and a control unit, the control unit receiving user input through the interface, creating a question prompt based on the user input, transmitting the prompt to the AI ​​to obtain a response from the AI, and outputting the response to the user through the interface, and if there is user input for a second question before the output of a first response to a first question is completed, the system accepts the second question, stops outputting the first response, obtains a second response to the second question, and outputs it to the user.

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