US 11,749,270 B2
Output apparatus, output method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
Kota Tsubouchi, Tokyo (JP); Teruhiko Teraoka, Tokyo (JP); Hidehito Gomi, Tokyo (JP); and Junichi Sato, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Yahoo Japan Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/198,139.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-050046 (JP), filed on Mar. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0020368 A1, Jan. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 25/63 (2013.01); G10L 15/06 (2013.01)
CPC G10L 15/22 (2013.01) [G10L 15/063 (2013.01); G10L 25/63 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
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1. An output apparatus comprising:
a processor configured to estimate an emotion of a user from detection information detected by a detection device;
the processor is configured to predict occurrence of a target speech based on the estimated emotion of the user and a pre-speech;
the processor is configured to determine, for occurrence of the target speech being predicted, to change the target speech based on the estimated emotion of the user; and
the processor is configured to output a sound with an opposite phase to the target speech to cancel the predicted target speech when the target speech is uttered by the user.