An information processing apparatus that detects a voice command via a microphone in order to activate the device and execute certain applications. The apparatus comprises a digital signal processor (DSP) and a host controller which are responsible for processing the voice commands. The DSP recognizes and processes voice commands intermittently while the host processor is in a sleep state, thereby reducing the overall power consumption of the apparatus. Further, when the DSP is configured to recognize voice commands intended only to activate the device, a memory having a sufficiently lower storage capacity suffices.

An information management system is a system for generating distribution information for indicating to a terminal device related information related to a guidance voice for presentation of the related information to a user by the terminal device, the system including: a text identifier configured to identify from among multiple different registered texts a registered text that is similar to an input text representative of the guidance voice; and an information generator configured to generate distribution information that indicates to the terminal device the related information corresponding to a modified text that is partially different from the registered text identified by the text identifier.

A purpose of the present invention is to provide a technique for easily performing accurate voice recognition. A voice operating system includes an on-vehicle device and a server device, in which the on-vehicle device includes a voice-input accepting unit, a vehicle-environment-information management unit, and an output control unit that transmits input information and vehicle-environment information to the server device, then outputs an execution task candidate received from the server device together with an estimated misrecognition factor, and transmits, when accepting permission, an instruction to execute the execution task candidate, and the server device includes a voice-data processing unit that converts the input information into a text, a task estimation unit that specifies the execution task candidate, reliability and the estimated misrecognition factor, a user-confirmation-necessity determination unit that transmits, when the reliability is less than a predetermined value, the estimated factor and the execution task candidate, and a processing unit.

For an information processing device capable of accepting user's voice and executing processing based on the voice, convenience for a user is improved. A control portion 20 of an in-vehicle device 12 includes a non-voice operation mode and a voice operation mode as operation modes, and in the case that the operation mode is the non-voice operation mode, displays an operation button on a touch panel 26, and when it is detected that the operation button is operated, executes the processing corresponding to the operated operation button, and in the case that the operation mode is a voice operation mode M2, displays on the touch panel 26 an example phrase image indicating an example of a phrase to be uttered by the user in the case of making the processing corresponding to the operation button be executed instead of the operation button, and when voice data based on the phrase indicated by the example phrase image is generated, executes the processing corresponding to the operation button.

A voice processing device includes plural microphones 22 disposed in a vehicle, a voice source direction determination portion 16 determining a direction of a voice source by handling a sound reception signal as a spherical wave in a case where the voice source serving as a source of a voice included in the sound reception signal obtained by each of the plural microphones is disposed at a near field, the voice source direction determination portion determining the direction of the voice source by handling the sound reception signal as a plane wave in a case where the voice source is disposed at the far field, and a beamforming processing portion 12 performing beamforming so as to suppress a sound arriving from a direction range other than a direction range including the direction of the voice source.

Systems, methods, and devices of a voice-directed inspection system that supports multiple inspectors in the inspection of business assets are described. Inspection plans for large and complex business assets can involve several steps. It is advantageous to split large inspection plans into non-overlapping sections to allow multiple inspectors to perform concurrent inspections. Such sectionalizing is also useful in training new inspectors.

A voice recognition system includes a server storing a plurality of manuals and a display apparatus transmitting, when a spoken voice of a user is recognized, characteristic information and a spoken voice signal corresponding to the spoken voice to the server, the characteristic information is characteristic information of the display apparatus, the server transmits a response signal to the spoken voice signal to the display apparatus based on a manual corresponding to the characteristic information among the plurality of manuals, and the display apparatus processes an operation corresponding to the received response signal; as a result, user convenience increases.