Abstract: Provided are a voice chat apparatus, a voice chat method, and a program that achieve appropriate control on whether or not to provide text obtained as a result of voice recognition on voice in voice chat. A voice receiving unit receives voice in voice chat. A text acquiring unit acquires text obtained as a result of voice recognition on the voice received by the voice receiving unit. A transmission control unit controls, on a basis of whether or not display of a voice recognition result is performed in a voice chat system that is a communication destination, whether or not to transmit text data including the text acquired by the text acquiring unit to the communication destination.

Abstract: A steel strip is fed and compressed between a driving roller and a compression roller to generate a stress greater than a yield stress in the steel strip and to elongate one periphery portion of the steel strip, which is on one side, more than the other periphery portion of the steel strip, which is on the other side, in a sending direction. The compression roller includes a first contact portion and a second contact portion. The second contact portion extends from an end of the first contact portion in the axial direction of the compression roller. The end of the first contact portion has an outer diameter less than an outer diameter of the second contact portion.

Abstract: A roll bending machine includes a roller unit and a tension device. The roller unit rolls and bends a strip member at a rolling rate varying in a width-wise direction of the strip member. The tension device applies tension to the strip member after being rolled by the roller unit in a rolling direction of the strip member, thereby reducing compressive stress which usually result in formation of wrinkles on the strip member. This minimizes the probability of formation of wrinkles on the strip member.

Abstract: A steel strip is fed and compressed between a driving roller and a compression roller to generate a stress greater than a yield stress in the steel strip and to elongate one periphery portion of the steel strip, which is on one side, more than the other periphery portion of the steel strip, which is on the other side, in a sending direction. The compression roller includes a first contact portion and a second contact portion. The second contact portion extends from an end of the first contact portion in the axial direction of the compression roller. The end of the first contact portion has an outer diameter less than an outer diameter of the second contact portion.

Abstract: After a clinker sintered in a kiln is fluidized and mixed in a fluidized mixing and cooling zone provided before a grate cooling zone, the clinker is supplied to the following grate cooling zone and is cooled therein. The cooling air for fluidizing, mixing and cooling the clinker is supplied by successively switching and controlling the injection of the high pressure cooling air from the rows of the high pressure nozzles at the side walls towards the central rows in the fluidized mixing and cooling zone.