To eliminate digital divide by means of an interactive communication terminal with an integrative interface using voice input and touch panel input together.
The interactive communication terminal includes: a display unit with a touch panel; voice input/output units; a voice recognition unit for identifying an instruction through voice recognition of user's voice; a character control unit for displaying a personification navigation character; an interactive scenario control unit for performing character-user voice interaction control based on a predetermined response scenario with respect to a user input command by the touch panel or voice; a multimedia communications interface control unit for connection to an external network and a communication line such as a telephone line; a Web browser control unit for extracting voice recognition words on the Web and registering them in a voice recognition dictionary; and an integrated interface control unit for dynamically controlling the respective units according to a combination of the input and output and transition states of the respective units, wherein the voice input unit and voice output unit are configured as a telephone.
SHIRAISHI SHOJIRO
SHINADA AKIRA
MORI YASUKO
YOSHIDA YOSHIMI
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Sadayoshi Igarashi