Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. Upon detecting an utterance that satisfies an utterance condition set in advance, the controller activates a voice assistant function and outputs a response to a content of the utterance, even if a keyword for activating the voice assistant function is not detected.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller that, upon detecting a first voice having been uttered by a first occupant, among occupants, as a command to activate a function, determines, as a first attribute, an attribute of the first occupant, upon detecting, after the first voice has been detected and before the function is activated, a second voice that is different from the first voice and has been uttered as a command to cancel the activation of the function, determines, as a second attribute, an attribute of a second occupant who has uttered the second voice, and determines, according to the result of a comparison between the first and second attributes, whether to interrupt control to be performed based on the first voice.

Abstract: An information presentation apparatus includes a controller configured to display on screen, upon detecting presence of information related to a destination when the destination is set by an occupant of a vehicle, a banner notifying the occupant of the information related to the destination, the controller saving a notification made by the banner according to voice input from the occupant.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to control a function according to voice input from an occupant of a vehicle, identify the occupant, and adjust degree of conciseness of a response to the voice input depending on the identified occupant.

Abstract: A vehicle agent device receives utterance information from an on-board unit, analyzes the content of the utterance, detects, as a non-installed function from a database, a function that an occupant intended to utilize but which was not installed and is installable, generates proposal information for furnishing the occupant with information relating to the non-installed function it detected, and sends the proposal information that has been generated to the on-board unit to thereby send the information relating to the non-installed function to a preregistered mobile device carried by the occupant.

Abstract: A voice recognition apparatus includes a controller configured to recognize voice input from an occupant of a vehicle, and control a function according to the recognized voice input, the controller outputting notification that differs between a case in which the controller has not been able to recognize the voice input and a case in which the controller has recognized the voice input and the function is not available.

Abstract: A voice recognition apparatus includes a controller that is configured to control a specific function in response to voice input from an occupant of a vehicle, and that is configured to sequentially transition to each of multiple states within a transition period from accepting the voice input until at least finishing controlling the specific function, and display, on a screen, which of the multiple states the controller is in.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to control a specific function in response to an operation that can be performed by both manual input and voice input. The controller is configured to notify an occupant of a vehicle that the operation can be performed by voice input, upon determining that the occupant has performed the operation by manual input, with a higher frequency when the occupant is a driver than when the occupant is not the driver.

Abstract: A voice control apparatus includes a controller configured to detect a speed of a vehicle, and set a frequency of voice output for an occupant of the vehicle higher as the detected speed increases.

Abstract: A vehicle agent device receives a captured image and vehicle information from an on-board unit, identifies an occupant from the captured image, specifies attributes of the occupant it identified, searches for vehicle functions corresponding to the attributes it specified, and sends, as description information to an on-board unit, a moving image that introduces the vehicle functions.

Abstract: A control unit is provided to execute: acquiring a user's utterance; searching a first sound source capable of providing a first music piece via wireless communication in response to a request for reproducing a first music piece being included in a user's utterance; acquiring information regarding the sound quality of the first music piece for each of the plurality of first sound pieces in response to the plurality of first sound pieces being present; selecting a second sound piece having the highest sound quality among the plurality of first sound pieces; and reproducing a first music piece provided from the second sound piece.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller. The controller is configured to execute acquiring an utterance of a user, searching for a first music piece on a plurality of sound sources in response to the utterance of the user including a request to replay the first music piece, and replaying the first music piece that has been searched for and is provided in a first sound source.

Abstract: An agent device that receives state information regarding a state of a vehicle from the vehicle, and receive a question from a user as question information; performs inference processing for the received question information and the received state information in order to infer an intent of the question; and acquires a response to the question based on the inferred intent.

Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion device that includes an element body including a plurality of stacked; and a meandering wire inside the element body and that has a stacked structure. The meandering wire includes a thermoelectric material that has an anomalous Nernst effect, and a thermal conductivity of the plurality of stacked substrates is lower than that of the thermoelectric material. A thermoelectric conversion device that includes a winding core; and a winding wire wound around the winding core. The winding wire consists only of a thermoelectric material that has an anomalous Nernst effect. A thermoelectric conversion device that includes a plurality of substrates and meandering wires on main surfaces of the respective substrates. The meandering wires include a thermoelectric material that has an anomalous Nernst effect, and the substrates adjacent to each other are arranged at an angle that is larger than 0 degrees and smaller than 180 degrees.

Abstract: In cases in which a confidence score of an inferred intent label is a predetermined threshold or less, an intent inference section searches for whether or not wording pertaining to a location, such as “on the door”, is present in a question. In cases in which a word relating to a location is present, the intent inference section consults individual function identification data associated with OM item codes in order to find intent labels including individual functions relevant to the location (such as “door”). In cases in which an intent label including an individual function relevant to the “door” is found, an OMA interaction control section consults QA data to find and acquire associated response information based on the found intent label and the OM item code, and notifies a HMI interaction control section of such response information.

Abstract: An agent device receives input information that is input by the user, in a case in which the input information is a question from the user, executes inference processing on the input information to infer an intent of the question in order to acquire a response to the question based on the intent, in a case in which a plurality of the responses are acquired, provides the notification device with option information that includes the plurality of responses as options, in a case in which new input information is received, determines whether the new input information is information requiring the inference processing or is selection information relating to a selection result from selection of the options, and in a case in which the new input information is the selection information, provides the notification device with response information regarding the response associated with the selection result without executing the inference processing.

Abstract: An agent device that receives, from an onboard device installed in a vehicle, vehicle information relating to the vehicle and question information corresponding to a question from a user, based on the vehicle information, confirms a scope of questions for which generation of a response is not possible, and instructs the onboard device to block receipt of questions falling within the scope of questions for which it has been confirmed that response generation is not possible.

Abstract: An agent system includes a first memory and a first processor coupled to the first memory. The first processor analyzes contents of a verbal question, and carries out pre-processing that replaces vocabulary, which is used in the contents of the question, with homogenized vocabulary, and generates response information based on results of analysis. In a case in which there exists substitution vocabulary that has replaced original vocabulary in the pre-processing, the first processor changes the response information such that it can be recognized that the substitution vocabulary in the response information is synonymous with the original vocabulary, and outputs the response information.

Abstract: An information processing device acquires question information. The information processing device acquires vehicle state information representing a state of the vehicle. The information processing device acquires answer information in response to the question information, the answer information including an image for display. The information processing device, in a case in which the vehicle state information represents that the vehicle is traveling, stores the answer information in a storage. The information processing device, in a case in which the information processing device acquires vehicle state information representing that the vehicle is stopped, outputs the answer information stored in the storage.

Abstract: An agent management device includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: generate a response to an inquiry from an occupant of a moving body; determine whether or not a change in a control content of the moving body to correspond to the response is possible; output a question whether or not to execute the change to the control content to the occupant when determining that the change to the control content is possible; and execute the change to the control content when the occupant approves the change to the control content.