Abstract: An information providing device is provided which can provide necessary guidance in an intuitively and easy-to-recognize form even when guidance is mainly by audio or sound. In searching for a route destination, when the distance to the destination is within a prescribed distance, guidance that includes information indicating the distance to the destination is provided by audio, and when the destination is farther than said prescribed distance, guidance that includes address information indicating the address of the destination is provided by audio (steps S28, S30, S17).

Abstract: The present invention provides an information provision device and the like capable of reliably providing necessary guidance information while reducing the amount of audio information that is necessary for processing. The information provision device is provided with: a guidance voice output control unit 1 and a speaker 10 which output a guidance voice; a microphone 11 and a collected sound transmission unit 2 which collect sounds that are made after the guidance voice starts to be output, wherein the guidance voice output control unit 1 and the speaker 10 output re-guidance voice corresponding to the guidance voice, on the basis of the result of determination of whether the collected sounds include a specific sound.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an information providing device and the like capable of simplifying entry into a road to be entered, even using guidance by voice or the like. This information providing device is provided with: a route searching unit 1 which acquires both road data 23a and intersection data 23b; and a guidance voice generating unit 2 which, on the basis of the acquired road data 23a and the like, outputs, while moving along a wider road, a simplified guidance voice for moving to a narrower road, in such a way that it is simple to enter the narrower road from the wider road.