Control apparatus for electronic equipment

Details Control apparatus for electronic equipment Control apparatus for electronic equipment

1994-04-18

1996-10-15

MacDonald, Allen R.

395 255, 395 267, G10L 300

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055662714

ABSTRACT:
An instruction for operation mode control of a VTR 40 and information on the video recording reservation is voice inputted. The voice input is recognized by a voice recognition circuit 13 and is fed to a control circuit 15. The control circuit 15 controls the VTR 40 in response to the instruction or information of the voice input and causes an animation character generating circuit 16 to generate a video image of an animation character AC for displaying it on the screen of a CRT display 30. A message from the animation character AC is voice synthesized in a voice synthesizing circuit 19 and the synthesized voice is outputted from a speaker 20.
The electronic equipment can be operated as if the user were talking with the animation character, so that a natural man-machine interface can be realized.

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