JP2012129663A - Utterance instruction device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means to give a voice message keeping a user interested at a time specified by the user.SOLUTION: A call management server device 13 stores voice data indicating a plurality of voice messages by animation voice actors as well as property data indicating properties of the voice data. In addition, the call management server device 13 stores time data indicating calling times as well as selection condition data indicating conditions on the selection of the voice data used for utterance, in association with users' telephone numbers. The call management server device 13, when a time specified by the time data comes, extracts voice data with properties satisfying conditions offered by the selection condition data among a plurality of voice data and selects one of the voice data to be used for utterance. As a consequence, a user can listen to voice messages varying according to times via a mobile phone 11 at a specified time.

Description

  The present invention relates to a system for making a call and speaking to a telephone at a fixed time.

  There is a so-called wake-up service. In general, a wake-up call is a service that allows an external person to make a call to his / her telephone number at a desired time. The user (hereinafter referred to as “user”) can make a call from the telephone. It is possible to wake up reliably at a desired time by the ringing tone.

  The primary purpose of the wake-up call is to wake up the user by calling a specified telephone number at a specified time. Therefore, when the user performs an operation of picking up the handset of the telephone, the call is generally terminated by an operation of placing the handset immediately.

  The typical wake-up call is dry and tasteless. In addition, although the user wakes up in response to the ringing tone of the telephone, the user is likely to fall asleep again after having placed the handset without resisting sleepiness. This is the same problem as that of the alarm clock.

  In order to solve the above-described problem of the general wake-up call service, for example, in Patent Document 1, a call is made to a mobile phone number designated by a user at a time designated by the user to establish a call connection. Later, a system has been proposed that enables a user to receive a wake-up call that matches the user's preference by uttering a voice message of a celebrity such as a celebrity recorded in advance.

  According to the system proposed in Patent Document 1, the user can wake up while listening to the voice message of his favorite celebrity, can get up more reliably, and can listen to the voice of his favorite celebrity. It is possible to obtain the desired effect of being able to get up comfortably.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-219036

  For example, in the case of the system proposed in Patent Document 1, the celebrity voice message designated by the user is basically fixed even if it is periodically changed. Therefore, for a user who uses a wake-up call on a daily basis, the novelty of the voice message will soon be lost, and it becomes the same as a general wake-up call.

  Moreover, it is conceivable to reduce the problem of voice message rubbing by flowing a voice message randomly selected from a plurality of choices, but it will not be possible to solve the problem of rubbing.

  In view of the circumstances described above, an object of the present invention is to provide means for uttering a voice message that does not make the user feel bored at the time designated by the user.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides:
A plurality of voice data indicating each of a plurality of voices and voice attribute data indicating a voice attribute indicated by the voice data relating to each of the plurality of voice data are stored in association with each other, and one or more call destinations are stored. Storage means for storing a telephone number and selection condition data indicating a condition regarding selection of voice data and time data indicating a time at which a call should be made for each of the telephone numbers of the call destination;
A time measuring means for measuring the current time;
With respect to each of the one or more time data stored in the storage means, before the current time measured by the time measurement means reaches the time indicated by the time data, it is associated with the time data in the storage means. The plurality of audio data stored in the storage unit is stored as one audio data stored in the storage unit in association with audio attribute data indicating an attribute that satisfies the condition indicated by the stored selection condition data. Selecting means for selecting as voice data corresponding to the telephone number of the call destination stored in the storage means in association with the time data,
With respect to each of the one or more time data stored in the storage means, the current time measured by the time measuring means is associated with the time data at the timing when the current time reaches the time indicated by the time data. A call instruction means for instructing a built-in or external communication device to make a call to a stored call destination telephone number;
When a call connection is established in response to a call in accordance with a call instruction by the call instruction means, the call used for establishing the call connection selected by the selection means via the call connection. There is provided an utterance instruction device comprising: utterance instruction means for instructing the telephone device to utter a voice indicated by voice data corresponding to a telephone number of a call destination (first embodiment).

In the first embodiment described above,
At least a part of the plurality of audio attribute data stored in the storage means indicates a situation in the virtual world as an attribute,
A configuration may be employed in which at least a part of the one or more selection condition data stored in the storage means indicates a condition relating to a situation in a virtual world (second embodiment).

In the first or second embodiment described above,
At least a part of the plurality of audio attribute data stored in the storage means indicates a character appearing in a program constituting a virtual world as an attribute,
At least a part of the one or more selection condition data stored in the storage means indicates a condition regarding characters appearing in a program constituting a virtual world,
The storage means stores program name data indicating the name of the program for each of the one or more programs and character name data indicating the names of the characters for each of the one or more characters appearing in the program in association with each other. And
A terminal device identified by one telephone number among the one or more call destination telephone numbers stored in the storage means or a user stored in the storage means in association with the one telephone number Request data receiving means for receiving search screen transmission request data for requesting transmission of a search screen from a terminal device used by a user identified by the identification data;
When the search screen transmission request data is received by the request data receiving means, at least a part of the one or more program name data and the one or more character name data stored in the storage means Transmitting means for transmitting at least a part to the terminal device;
Designation data reception for receiving program designation data for designating a specific program and character designation data for designating a specific character, which are transmitted from the terminal device in response to transmission of program name data and character name data by the transmission means Means and
The storage means stores the selection condition data stored in association with the telephone number used for identification of the terminal device, and the characters appearing in the program specified by the program designation data received by the designation data receiving means And the structure rewritten so that the conditions regarding the character specified by the said character designation | designated data received by the said designation | designated data reception means may be employ | adopted (3rd embodiment).

In any of the first to third embodiments described above,
At least a part of the plurality of voice attribute data stored in the storage means indicates personal information of an arbitrary user as an attribute,
At least a part of the one or more selection condition data stored in the storage means is a terminal device identified by a telephone number of a call destination stored in the storage means in association with the selection condition data. A configuration indicating conditions related to the personal information of the user may be employed (fourth embodiment).

In any of the first to fourth embodiments described above,
At least a part of the plurality of voice attribute data stored in the storage means includes the number of executions of the call instruction by the call instruction device for an arbitrary terminal device and the utterance of the utterance by the utterance instruction device for an arbitrary terminal device. Shows information about at least one of the execution times as an attribute,
At least a part of the one or more selection condition data stored in the storage means corresponds to a terminal device identified by a telephone number of a call destination stored in the storage means in association with the selection condition data. A configuration may be adopted in which a condition indicating a condition relating to at least one of the number of times the call instruction is executed by the call instruction device and the execution time of the utterance by the utterance instruction device for the terminal device may be employed (fifth embodiment).

In any of the first to fifth embodiments described above,
The storage means includes fixed time data indicating a plurality of fixed times arranged in a time series at predetermined time intervals with respect to each of the one or more call destination telephone numbers and the one or more call destination telephone numbers. And the voice data corresponding to each of them are stored in association with each other,
There has been an incoming call from the telephone device to a telephone number of one of the one or more called telephone numbers stored in the storage means from a telephone number of one calling party. Notification data acquisition means for acquiring incoming call notification data indicating:
The utterance instructing means includes a telephone number of one calling source indicated by the incoming call notification data acquired by the notification data acquiring means in the one or more call destination telephone numbers stored in the storage means. If it is included, the current time measured by the time measuring means reaches one of the plurality of fixed times, and is associated with the telephone number of one called destination indicated by the incoming call notification data. A configuration may be employed in which an instruction is given to the call device to utter the voice indicated by the voice data stored in the storage unit and stored in association with the fixed time data indicating the fixed time ( Sixth embodiment).

In any of the first to sixth embodiments described above,
At least a part of the one or more call destination telephone numbers stored in the storage means is a telephone number of a mobile phone;
At least a part of the plurality of audio attribute data stored in the storage unit indicates a place or an event in the real world that changes depending on the place as an attribute,
At least a part of the one or more selection condition data stored in the storage means indicates a condition related to an event in the real world that changes depending on a place or a place,
Position data receiving means for receiving position data indicating the current position of the mobile phone from a mobile phone identified by one of the one or more call destination telephone numbers stored in the storage means; Prepared,
The selection means may be configured to select the audio data based on the current position of the mobile phone indicated by the position data received by the position data receiving means (seventh embodiment).

In any of the first to seventh embodiments described above,
The storage means stores text data indicating one or more predetermined texts and rewrite rule data indicating rewriting rules of time data corresponding to each of the one or more text data in association with each other,
The storage means stores an e-mail address in association with each of at least a part of the one or more call destination telephone numbers;
A mail receiving means for receiving an e-mail from the mail server device;
The storage means includes a transmission included in the e-mail when the e-mail received by the e-mail receiving means includes one text data of the one or more text data stored in the storage means. A configuration may be adopted in which the time data stored in association with the original e-mail address is rewritten according to the rewrite rule data stored in association with the one text data included in the e-mail. 8 embodiments).

In any of the first to seventh embodiments described above,
The storage means stores evaluation data indicating an evaluation regarding each of the plurality of audio data or each of a plurality of groups obtained by grouping the plurality of audio data.
The storage means stores text data indicating one or more predetermined texts and rewrite rule data indicating rewrite rules for evaluation data corresponding to each of the one or more text data in association with each other,
The storage means stores an e-mail address in association with each of at least a part of the one or more call destination telephone numbers;
A mail receiving means for receiving an e-mail from the mail server device;
The storage means includes, when the email received by the mail reception means includes one text data of the one or more text data stored in the storage means, the email included in the email A call established using the telephone number of the call destination stored in association with the e-mail address of the transmission source included in the e-mail according to the rewrite rule data stored in association with the text data of 1 A configuration may be adopted in which the evaluation data is rewritten so as to change the evaluation relating to the voice data used for the speech instruction by the speech instruction means via the connection (the ninth embodiment).

In any of the first to ninth embodiments described above,
At least a part of the plurality of voice data stored in the storage means includes question data that indicates a question by voice and two or more response data that indicates a response corresponding to each of two or more answers to the question by voice. Including
After the speech of the voice indicated by the question data included in one voice data is executed by the telephone device, an answer indicating one answer transmitted from the telephone of the utterance destination to the telephone device as a response to the speech Answer data acquisition means for acquiring data from the call device;
The utterance instructing unit responds to one answer indicated by the answer data acquired by the answer data acquiring unit among the two or more response data included in the one voice data stored in the storage unit. A configuration may be adopted in which the speech device indicated to the response data indicating a response is instructed to the call device (tenth embodiment).

  According to the utterance instruction device according to the first embodiment of the present invention, when a call is made to the user's telephone at a time desired by the user, and the user performs a reception operation on the telephone in response to the call. A voice message is pronounced from the telephone. As the voice message that is pronounced at that time, the voice message that satisfies the conditions set for each user is selected from a plurality of voice messages, so the user sometimes receives the expected and sometimes the surprise voice message. Therefore, the problem of getting bored with the content of the voice message is less likely to occur.

  According to the utterance instruction apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention, the user designates a desired situation in the virtual world, for example, a so-called wake-up call is made by a voice message from a lover of a virtual favorite personality. Can receive. At that time, for example, by giving the daily voice message a story as a whole, the enjoyment of listening to the voice message of the user can be further increased.

  According to the speech instruction apparatus according to the third embodiment of the present invention, for example, when a user who wants to receive a voice message of an anime voice actor does not know the real name of the voice actor, the title of the animation and the character in the animation By designating a name, it is possible to designate a desired voice actor. Therefore, for example, even when the same voice actor plays different characters in different animations, the user can specify a voice actor in units of characters, so that it is possible to provide a voice message that more suits the user's preference.

  According to the utterance instruction device according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention, for example, a voice message for celebrating a birthday on the user's birthday is provided, or a voice message for praying for a good fight is provided on the user's examination date. It is possible to provide a voice message according to the personal information of each user. Therefore, the user can receive a more appropriate voice message. The user can also remember the anniversary by voice message by registering in advance an anniversary that tends to be forgotten, such as a wedding anniversary or an acquaintance's birthday.

  According to the utterance instruction device according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention, grades such as platinum users, gold users, and silver users are given to individual users according to the number of voice messages received in the past, for example. It is possible to provide different voice messages to the user according to the situation. Therefore, for a user who has received a voice message for a long time, the voice message is selected under different conditions from the previous one. By providing the user with a special voice message, the user can be motivated to continue receiving the voice message.

  According to the utterance instruction device according to the sixth embodiment of the present invention, when a user makes a call to a destination telephone number designated from a telephone, the time by a voice message corresponding to the telephone number and the time You can receive guidance. At that time, since the user is specified by the telephone number of the caller telephone set, unauthorized use can be avoided and billing processing can be automated.

  According to the utterance instruction device according to the seventh embodiment of the present invention, when the user's telephone is a mobile phone having a function of measuring the current position, for example, the utterance instruction device according to the present invention is periodically transmitted from the mobile phone. By transmitting position data indicating the current position to the user, the user can be provided with a voice message having contents corresponding to the current position. For example, if the user is traveling, providing voice messages in the dialect of the travel destination can help the user create memories. Also, by providing voice messages according to the weather of the user's current location, for example, providing voice messages that encourage users to say “I'm cold today, but I ’ll do my best” on cold days. It becomes possible.

  According to the utterance instruction apparatus according to the eighth embodiment of the present invention, the user designates an e-mail in which an e-mail including a predetermined text message such as “stop”, “change”, and “add” in the title is designated. By transmitting to the address, it is possible to easily stop calling the telephone at the designated time, change the designated time, or add the designated time.

  According to the speech instruction apparatus according to the ninth embodiment of the present invention, the user puts a predetermined text message such as “very good”, “good”, “normal”, “bad”, or “very bad” into the title. By sending the e-mail to the designated e-mail address, the evaluation of the voice message heard on that day can be easily fed back to the utterance instruction device that is the voice message provider.

  According to the utterance instruction device according to the tenth embodiment of the present invention, a question is given to the user by a voice message, and when the user answers, for example, by pushing a numeric button, the answer is correct. A corresponding voice message is further provided. At that time, the user uses his / her head to perform an answer or performs an operation on the telephone, so that he / she can wake up more and enjoy the voice message.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overall configuration of a call system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of the data configuration of the user DB according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a diagram schematically showing an example of the data structure of the outcall voice DB according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of the data configuration of the evaluation DB according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically showing an example of the data structure of the in-call voice DB according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a diagram schematically showing an example of the data configuration of the outcall telephone number management DB according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 7 is a diagram schematically showing an example of a user setting screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[1. Embodiment]
Hereinafter, a call system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described. The call system 1 calls a telephone number of a mobile phone registered in advance by the user at a time registered in advance by the user, and when the user lifts the handset in response to the call, the voice by the voice actor of the animation is sent to the mobile phone. It is a system that utters. Hereinafter, the call and the speech utterance at the designated time are referred to as “time call”.

[1.1. Constitution]
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the overall configuration of the call system 1. The call system 1 is a call that manages a time call for each of the mobile phone 11 used by the user, the PC 12 that is a PC (Personal Computer) used by the user, and the mobile phones 11 of all users who use the call system 1. Management server device 13, outcall communication device 14 that makes a time call to the telephone number specified in call management server device 13 at the time specified in call management server device 13, and mobile phone 11 of any user An in-call communication device 15 that utters a voice corresponding to the telephone number of the called party and the fixed time at the timing when the current time at that time reaches a predetermined fixed time in response to the incoming call from, and call management A weather information providing server device 16 for delivering weather data indicating information on the current weather in each region to the server device 13; It is provided.

  The numbers of the mobile phones 11 and the PCs 12 change according to the number of users. The number of outcall communication devices 14 varies according to the number of simultaneous calls at the time when time calls are most concentrated (hereinafter referred to as “the maximum number of simultaneous calls”). In the call system 1, as an example, each outcall communication device 14 can call two different telephone numbers at the same time. Accordingly, the number of out-call communication devices 14 that are required in the call system 1 is a half of the maximum number of simultaneous calls. The many outcall communication devices 14 are arranged, for example, in a stacked manner in one or a plurality of large casings.

  Further, the number of in-call communication devices 15 varies according to the number of simultaneous incoming calls at the time when incoming calls from the mobile phone 11 are most concentrated (hereinafter referred to as “maximum simultaneous incoming calls”). In the call system 1, as an example, each in-call communication device 15 can simultaneously accept incoming calls from two different telephone numbers. Accordingly, the number of in-call communication devices 15 required in the call system 1 is a half of the maximum number of simultaneous incoming calls, but the maximum number of simultaneous incoming calls cannot be accurately predicted in advance. The number of in-call communication devices 15 that are actually required is sufficiently larger than a half of the predicted maximum number of simultaneous incoming calls (for example, a number that is about 20% larger). The large number of in-call communication devices 15 are also arranged, for example, so as to be stacked in one or a plurality of large casings.

  The mobile phone 11 is a general mobile phone that can perform a voice call with another phone via a mobile phone network. However, at least a part of the mobile phone 11 used in the call system 1 acquires position data indicating the current position by GPS (Global Positioning System) or based on radio field strength with a nearby base station. It has a function. Further, at least a part of the mobile phone 11 used in the call system 1 has a mailer function and can send an e-mail. It is assumed that the mobile phone 11 in the following description is a model that can both acquire position data and send an e-mail.

  The PC 12 is a device that is used by the user of the mobile phone 11 to make various settings related to an outcall mainly to the call management server device 13. The PC 12 is a general computer provided with data communication means. The PC 12 has a browser function by executing processing according to a program, and displays a Web page provided by the call management server device 13 and input by the user on the Web page. The transmitted various data is transmitted to the call management server device 13.

  The call management server device 13 is a general computer having a data communication function. The call management server device 13 has a Web server function and a mailer function by executing processing according to a program, and functions as a device that executes various processes described below. To do.

The call management server device 13 includes at least the following functional components.
Storage unit: Stores various data.
Timekeeping section: Timekeeping the current time and generating time data indicating the time measured.
Selection unit: Selects voice data to be used for speech from a plurality of voice data stored in the storage unit.
Calling instruction unit: Sends calling instruction data indicating a calling instruction to the outcall communication device 14.
Speaking instruction unit: Transmits utterance instruction data indicating the utterance instruction to the out-call communication device 14.
Receiving unit: Receives various data transmitted from the mobile phone 11, the PC 12, the weather information providing server device 16, and the billing server device 17.
Transmitter: Transmits various data to the mobile phone 11, the PC 12, the weather information providing server device 16, and the billing server device 17.

  In the storage unit of the call management server device 13, a user DB that is a DB (Database) that stores data related to each of the users who use the call system 1, and a DB that stores data related to each of the audio data used for time calls. The outcall voice DB, the evaluation DB that stores evaluation data indicating the user's evaluation of the voice used in the time call, and the voice data used for the utterance corresponding to the incoming call to the in-call communication device 15 An in-call voice DB, which is a DB to be stored, and an out-call telephone number management DB which stores data indicating the current status of each telephone number for calling used in a time call are stored.

FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of the data configuration of the user DB. The user DB is a collection of user records that are data relating to each user. The user record includes the following fields:
Phone number: Indicates the phone number of the mobile phone 11 used by the user.
Email address: Indicates the email address used by the user. It also serves as a user ID (Identifier) for identifying the user.
Password: Used with a mail address in user authentication when a user accesses the call management server device 13 from the PC 12 to change various settings.
Terminal ID: Indicates a terminal ID that is identification data of the user's mobile phone 11.

Call time rule: A rule for determining the timing of a call. For example, “Every Monday 06:30” specifies that a call is made every Monday at 6:30 am, and “March 15, 2011 13:00” specifies that a call is made at a specific date and time. , Etc. are stored in this field. A plurality of data can be stored simultaneously.
Call time: Indicates the timing of a call in the next 30 days determined according to the call time rules. Data such as “December 14, 2010 06:30” designating that a call is made at a specific date and time is stored in this field. A plurality of data can be stored simultaneously.

Select condition: Indicates a condition for selecting audio data used for a time call. For example, “voice actor name = ○○○○” for designating a voice actor name, “program name = ΔΔΔ △” for designating an animation title, and “character name = × xxxx” designating a character name appearing in an animation. The data such as “situation = □□□□” for specifying the situation is stored in this field. A plurality of data specifying different types of conditions can be stored simultaneously.
Point balance: Indicates the balance of points required for using the call system 1.
Grade: Indicates a grade corresponding to the usage status of the call system 1 in the past by the user. More specifically, for example, a grade of normal, silver, gold, or platinum is given according to the number of voices uttered in the past six months.

Anniversary: Indicates an arbitrary anniversary specified by the user. The sub-field includes “type” indicating the type of the anniversary and “date” indicating the anniversary. For example, the type of anniversary includes so-called past anniversaries such as “birthday” and “marriage anniversary”, as well as special days in future schedules such as “pay day” and “university examination date”. . A plurality of data can be stored simultaneously.
Home area: An area including a place where the user normally stays, such as a user's home. For example, data such as “Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo” is stored in this field. Used to determine whether the user is traveling.
Use of position data: When the mobile phone 11 has a function of acquiring position data, it indicates whether or not the position data is used for the call system 1. “Yes” indicating use or “No” indicating non-use is stored in this field.
Current position: Stores the position data last transmitted by the mobile phone 11. For example, the position data indicates the current position of the mobile phone 11 with low accuracy according to the purpose of use in accordance with a data format such as “(Latitude XX degrees XX minutes, East longitude XXX degrees XX minutes)”.
History: Indicates the date and time of utterance to the mobile phone 11 and the voice ID for identifying the uttered voice. As subfields, “date and time” indicating the date and time of utterance, “voice ID” indicating the voice ID of the speech to be uttered, and “execution” indicating whether or not the utterance has been executed are included. “Execution” indicates that the utterance was executed, “Yes” indicating that the utterance was executed, or that the utterance was not executed because the radio wave did not reach, the power was turned off, or there was no response to the predetermined number of calls. “No” shown is stored.

FIG. 3 is a diagram schematically showing an example of the data structure of the outcall voice DB. The outcall voice DB is a collection of outcall voice records which are data related to each piece of voice data used for time calls. The outcall audio record includes the following fields:
Voice ID: identifies voice data.
Audio data file name: Indicates the file name of the audio data. The main body of the voice data is stored in the storage unit of the call management server device 13 as a file identified by the data stored in this field. Further, in this field, there are cases where audio data file names for specifying a plurality of audio data such as “main”, “sub 1”, and “sub 2” are stored. In this case, the voice data file name designated by “main” indicates the voice data used at the beginning of the utterance, and “sub 1”, “sub 2”,. The voice data selectively used according to the answer by the user to the asked question is shown.
Voice actor name: Indicates the name of the voice actor who is the speaker of the voice indicated by the voice data.
Program name: The title name of the animation in which the voice character indicated by the voice data appears.
Character name: Indicates the name of the voice character indicated by the voice data.
Situation name: Indicates the situation name indicating the voice in which situation the voice indicated by the voice data is.

  Sequence number: When the sound indicated by each of the plurality of sound data has a series of story characteristics, the order of these sounds is indicated. For example, data such as “2134-1” for certain outcall audio data, “2134-2” for other outcall audio data, and “2134-3 #” for other outcall audio data are displayed in this field. Stored. In this case, the first four digits, ie “2134”, indicate that the audio data is a series of stories, and the last one digits, ie “1,” “2,” and “3” It shows that it has a story in order. Furthermore, “#” indicates that the third audio data is the last one.

  Selected condition: Indicates a condition for selecting audio data. For example, “grade = gold”, which requires that the user ’s grade is gold, “current position = 100 km or more from the home area”, which requires that the current position is approximately 100 km or more away from the home area, and the current position is specified. "Current location = XX area" requesting that the current location is within the area, "Weather = rain" requesting that the current weather at the current location is rain, and request that today is the user's birthday “Today = Birthday”, “Today = December 24” requesting that today is a specific day, “Current time = 22: 00-23” requesting that the current time is within a specific time zone : 59 "is an example of data stored in this field.

Each of the data included in the selection target condition is attached with a number or symbol indicating the selection frequency of (1) to (5) or (∞) as follows, for example.
"Weather = rain (3)"
“Today = Birthday (∞)”

  (1) to (5) indicate that the larger the number, the higher the probability of being selected. (∞) indicates that if this condition is satisfied, the selection is always performed regardless of the presence or absence of other selection candidate audio data. (However, if there are a plurality of selection candidates with (∞) added, for example, one of them is selected at random.)

FIG. 4 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of the data configuration of the evaluation DB. The evaluation DB is a collection of evaluation records which are data indicating the evaluations related to the voice of the time call fed back from an arbitrary user. The evaluation record includes the following fields:
Voice ID: Indicates a voice ID for identifying a voice to be evaluated.
Call date and time: Indicates the date and time when voice was spoken.
Evaluation: An evaluation related to speech is indicated by any number from 1 to 5. The higher the number, the higher the evaluation.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically showing an example of the data structure of the in-call voice DB. The in-call voice DB is a collection of a plurality of sub-DBs each identified by the telephone number of the called party. Each sub DB is a collection of in-call audio records that are data related to audio data for time guidance by the same voice of the same character in the same animation title by the same voice actor.

For example, the sub-DB identified by the callee telephone number 050-9999-0001 is identified by voice actor name = □□□□, program name = xxxx, character name = ΔΔΔΔ. Voice data for time guidance based on the character's voice, that is, "I will tell you exactly 0:00", "I will tell you 1:00:10", ... Contains in-call audio records. The in-call audio record includes the following fields:
Voice ID: identifies voice data.
Time: Indicates the utterance timing.
Audio data file name: Indicates the file name of the audio data. The main body of the voice data is stored in the storage unit of the call management server device 13 as a file identified by the data stored in this field.

FIG. 6 is a diagram schematically showing an example of the data structure of the outcall telephone number management DB. The outcall telephone number management DB is a collection of outcall telephone number management records for each of a large number of telephone numbers prepared as a caller telephone number. The outcall phone number management record includes the following fields:
Telephone number: Indicates the telephone number of the caller.
Calling device IP address: An IP address for identifying the calling device 14 for outcall. In the call system 1, since two caller telephone numbers are assigned in advance to one outcall communication device 14, the "call number" is different in the outcall telephone number management DB. Two outcall telephone number management records having the same “IP address” are included.
Empty: Stores “Yes” indicating that the telephone number is not available or “No” indicating that the telephone number is not available.

  The DB data structure stored in the storage unit of the call management server device 13 has been described above, but various setting screens transmitted to the PC 12 in addition to the above-described DBs are stored in the storage unit of the call management server device 13. Web page data for the user, according to the text data for setting change instruction included in the e-mail transmitted from the mobile phone 11, "call time" in the user DB (see FIG. 2) and "in the evaluation DB (see FIG. 4)" Various other data are stored, such as rewrite rule data indicating rules for rewriting the “evaluation” data, and conversion data for mutually converting position data and area names.

  Returning to FIG. 1, the description of other devices constituting the call system 1 will be continued. The out-call communication device 14 is arranged in a call center, makes a call to a designated telephone number, and when a call destination telephone responds to the call, an exchange (not shown), VoIP (Voice over) Internet Protocol) A voice signal is output to the callee telephone through a call connection established with the callee telephone by a telephone network system such as a server device or a base station. It is a device that receives an audio signal output from a telephone.

  The in-call communication device 15 is also arranged in the call center, and in response to an incoming call from an arbitrary telephone for a telephone number of a call destination assigned to each of the in-call communication apparatuses 15, a telephone network system (not illustrated) And a voice signal output from the caller telephone, and a voice signal output from the caller telephone via a call connection established between the caller and the caller.

  In the call system 1, the call management server device 13, the outcall communication device 14, and the incall call device 15 are arranged in the vicinity of the same call center, and the call management server device 13 and the outcall communication device 14, The call management server device 13 and the in-call communication device 15 are each connected by a LAN (Local Area Network), and the time required for data communication is extremely short and stable as compared to, for example, connection via the external Internet. This makes it possible to execute a time call at an accurate time.

  When the weather information providing server device 16 receives the weather information request data including the specific location data from the call management server device 13, the weather indicating the current weather at the location specified by the location data included in the weather information request data It is a server device that transmits data to the call management server device 13.

[1.2. Operation]
Next, the operation of the call system 1 will be described. First, a user who wants to use the call system 1 operates a mobile phone 11 to input a designated Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in a browser, thereby displaying a user registration screen provided from the call management server device 13. It is displayed on the PC 12. On the user registration screen, the user inputs the following data.
Phone number: Phone number of own mobile phone 11 Mail address: Email address assigned to own mobile phone 11 Password: String of letters, numbers and symbols arbitrarily decided by the user

  Data input on the user registration screen is transmitted from the PC 12 to the call management server device 13. At that time, the terminal ID of the mobile phone 11 is also transmitted to the call management server device 13. When the call management server device 13 receives the data, it adds a new user record to the user DB (see FIG. 2), and “phone number”, “mail address”, “password”, “terminal” of the added user record. The received data is registered in “ID”.

  Subsequently, the user operates the PC 12 to input a designated URL in the browser, thereby causing the PC 12 to display a user setting screen provided from the call management server device 13. However, prior to the display of the user setting screen, the user authentication screen is displayed on the PC 12, and the user setting is performed only when the user correctly inputs the e-mail address and password previously registered using the mobile phone 11 on the user authentication screen. A screen is displayed on the PC 12.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a user setting screen. On the user setting screen, the user designates a time at which he / she wants to receive a time call for each day of the week, or designates a specific date and time (area 121 in FIG. 7). The data thus input is transmitted from the PC 12 to the call management server device 13 and stored in the “call time rule” of the user DB (see FIG. 2). When the “call time rule” is changed, the call management server device 13 determines the time at which the time call should be executed for 30 days from now according to the changed “call time rule”, and data indicating the determined time Overwrite "call time" with.

  In the user setting screen, the user searches for and specifies the voice actor of the voice that he / she wants to hear in the time call, searches for and specifies the voice character he / she wants to hear in the order of the animation title and character, and Whether to listen to the voice in the situation is selected from the selectable situation names in the list box and designated (area 122 in FIG. 7). The input data is transmitted from the PC 12 to the call management server device 13 and stored in the “select condition” of the user DB (see FIG. 2).

  On the user setting screen, the user selects and designates the type of anniversary such as birthday, university examination date, etc. from selectable anniversary names in the list box, and then inputs the date (FIG. 7). Region 123). The input data is transmitted from the PC 12 to the call management server device 13 and stored in “anniversary” of the user DB (see FIG. 2).

  Further, on the user setting screen, the user selects and designates a region (area) including a place where he / she normally stays, such as home, in the list box in the order of prefecture name and municipality name (region 124 in FIG. 7). ). The input data is transmitted from the PC 12 to the call management server device 13 and stored in the “home area” of the user DB (see FIG. 2).

  Further, on the user setting screen, the user specifies whether to use the position data transmitted from the mobile phone 11 in the call system 1 by selecting either “Yes” or “No” (area in FIG. 7). 125). The data thus input is transmitted from the PC 12 to the call management server device 13 and stored in “use of location data” in the user DB (see FIG. 2).

  In order to use the call system 1, the user needs to pay the usage fee. In the call system 1, by purchasing and charging points in advance, it is possible to use time calls and time guidance while the point balance is sufficient. Accordingly, in order to charge the point, the user operates the PC 12 and inputs the designated URL in the browser, thereby causing the PC 12 to display the user information screen provided from the call management server device 13. However, prior to the display of the user information screen, a user authentication screen is displayed on the PC 12 and the user is required to input an e-mail address and a password as in the case of the user setting screen.

  On the user information screen, the current user's point balance and the current user's grade are displayed, and points can be charged. The point balance and grade displayed on the user information screen are the contents of “point balance” and “grade” in the user DB (see FIG. 2), respectively.

  When the user designates the point charge on the user information screen, a credit card information input screen for settlement of the point purchase price is displayed, and when the requested data is correctly input, the data is transferred to the call management server device. 13 is transmitted. The call management server device 13 performs data communication with a charging server device (not shown in FIG. 1), and if a response to the effect that the credit card specified by the user is sufficient is obtained from the charging server device, the user The purchased point balance is added to the point balance in the DB (see FIG. 2), and the added point balance is displayed on the user information screen. As described above, the user can receive the service of the call system 1.

  Note that when using the location data, the user performs an operation such as inputting a designated URL to the mobile phone 11 and pressing a predetermined button at an appropriate timing such as before going to bed at a travel destination. In response to the operation, the mobile phone 11 transmits the location data indicating the current location at that time to the call management server device 13 together with the terminal ID of the mobile phone 11. When the call management server device 13 receives the position data, the call management server device 13 converts the received position data into an area name according to the conversion data stored in the storage unit, and simultaneously uses the received terminal ID as a search key from the user DB (see FIG. 2). The area name is stored in the “current position” of the searched user record.

  The call management server device 13 determines the time when a time call should be executed in one day after 30 days according to the “call time rule” for each of the user records included in the user DB (see FIG. 2) at regular time every day. Then, data indicating the determined time is added to the “call time”. Thus, time data indicating the scheduled time of the time call for the next 30 days is always stored in the “call time”.

  The selection unit of the call management server device 13 constantly monitors the time data stored in the “call time” of the user DB (see FIG. 2), and the current time measured by the time measuring unit is stored in the call time. Audio data indicating a voice to be uttered to a “telephone number” of a user record storing the time data at a time indicated by the time data when a predetermined time before the time indicated by the time data, for example, 5 minutes before The selection process is performed.

  Specifically, the selection unit firstly selects the outcall voice DB (see FIG. 5) for those designated in the “select condition” of the user record, that is, those designated in the voice actor name, program name, character name, and situation name. 3), out of the outcall audio records included in the corresponding fields, ie, “voice name”, “program name”, “character name”, and “situation name” are extracted. . For example, when “voice actor name = XXXXXX, situation name = xxxx” is stored in the “select condition” of the user record, the selection unit selects from the outcall voice DB (see FIG. 3), An outcall voice record in which “xxx” is stored in “voice actor name” and “xxxxxx” is stored in “situation name” is extracted.

  Subsequently, the selection unit extracts, from the extracted outcall audio records, those satisfying the conditions indicated by the data stored in the “selected conditions”. For example, if “grade = gold” is stored in the “selected condition”, the selection unit extracts the outcall audio record when the “grade” of the user record is gold, but other than that, If it is, remove it from the extraction target.

  For example, when “current position = 100 km or more from home area” is stored in “selected condition”, the selection unit is indicated by the center point of the area indicated by “home area” and “current position” of the user record. The center point of the area is specified according to the conversion data stored in the storage unit, and it is determined whether the distance between them is 100 km or more. When it is determined that the distance is 100 km or more, the selection unit selects the outcall audio record as an extraction target, but excludes the extraction from the extraction target in other cases.

  For example, when “weather = rain” is stored in “selected condition”, the selection unit specifies the center point of the area indicated by “current position” of the user record in accordance with the conversion data stored in the storage unit. The weather information request data including the position data indicating the specified point is transmitted to the weather information providing server device 16. When the weather data transmitted from the weather information providing server device 16 as a response indicates rain, the selection unit selects the outcall audio record as an extraction target, but excludes it from the extraction target in other cases.

  For example, when “Today = Birthday” is stored in “Selected condition”, the selection unit stores “Birthday” in “Type” included in “Anniversary” of the user record, and corresponds to it. It is determined whether or not today's date is stored in “Date”. If such data is stored, the outcall audio record is selected as an extraction target. Otherwise, it is excluded from the extraction target.

  As mentioned above, regarding some examples of the condition data stored in the “selected condition”, the selection unit explained how to extract the outcall audio record according to the condition data. The same applies when the condition data is obeyed.

  Subsequently, the selection unit determines whether or not there is a “(selected)” attached to the “selected condition” of the outcall audio record extracted as described above. If there is one with (∞), the selection unit selects the outcall voice record as a record to be used for utterance. In addition, when a plurality of outcall audio records including condition data with (∞) attached to “selected condition” are extracted, the selection unit uses one of them for utterance at random. Choose as.

  If there is no “∞” attached to the “selected condition” of the extracted outcall audio record, the selection unit checks whether there is a story that has not been completed in a series of audio data with a story. judge. More specifically, the selection unit firstly, among the data stored in the “history” of the user record, “execution” is “Yes”, and “date / time” is, for example, up to 30 “ The “voice ID” is sequentially read, and the outcall voice record corresponding to the read “voice ID” is searched from the outcall voice DB (see FIG. 3). If the retrieved “out-call” audio record “sequence number” that does not end with “#” is found, the selection unit determines that there is a series of audio data for which speech has not been completed.

  In that case, the selection unit searches the outcall voice DB (see FIG. 3) for an outcall voice record including the sequence number obtained by adding 1 to the end of the sequence number in the “sequence number”. The selection unit selects the outcall voice record searched as described above as a record to be used for utterance.

  When it is determined that there is no series of voice data that has not been uttered, the selection unit responds to the numbers given as (1) to (5) in the “selected condition” of the previously extracted outcall voice record. According to the selected probabilities, one of these outcall audio records is selected at random as a record used for speech.

  When the selection unit selects the outcall voice record as described above, the voice data specified by the “voice data file name” of the selected outcall voice record is read from the storage unit, and the “phone number” and the user record The latest “call time”, that is, the telephone number of the call destination and the time data indicating the call timing, are temporarily stored in the work area of the storage unit or the like.

  The call instructing unit of the call management server device 13 starts from the outcall telephone number management DB (see FIG. 6) when a predetermined time before the time indicated by the temporarily stored time data, for example, 10 seconds before. A record in which “available” is “Yes” is searched, and call instruction data having the “calling device IP address” of the searched record as a destination address is generated and sent to the LAN. The call instruction data includes a caller telephone number ("phone number" in the outcall telephone number management record), time data, and a callee telephone number (temporarily stored by the selection unit). It is included.

  Upon receiving the call instruction data, the outcall communication device 14 that is the destination of the call instruction data makes a call at the time indicated by the time data using the telephone number of the caller in accordance with the received call instruction data. Make a call to the previous phone number.

  When the mobile phone 11 generates a ringing tone in response to the call and the user performs a receiving operation on the mobile phone 11, a call connection is established between the call device for outcall 14 and the mobile phone 11. The In this case, the call device for outcall 14 notifies the call management server device 13 of establishment of a call connection.

  In response to the notification, the utterance instruction unit of the outcall communication device 14 generates utterance instruction data including the voice data temporarily stored and transmits the utterance instruction data to the outcall communication device 14. The out-call call device 14 sequentially converts the voice data included in the utterance instruction data into voice data for the call, and transmits the converted voice data to the mobile phone 11 through the communication connection, thereby processing the utterance. I do. As a result, a voice message based on the voice of the voice actor flows from the sound generation unit of the mobile phone 11.

  By the way, as described in the explanation of the outcall voice DB, the voice data used for the utterance from the call device for outcall 14 is “main”, “sub 1”, “sub 2”,. There are cases where it is composed of a plurality of audio data. In that case, the call device for outcall 14 first performs an utterance process using the audio data designated by “main”. In this utterance, questions are asked to the user. In response to the question asked, the user pushes the numeric keypad of the mobile phone 11 and transmits numeric data indicating the answer to the call management server device 13. When “1” is transmitted, the call management server device 13 designates voice data designated by “sub 1”, and when “2” is sent, the voice data designated by “sub 2”. Is processed using the selected voice data. In this utterance, the correct answer is transmitted to the user.

  When the call instruction unit transmits the call instruction data to the out-call communication device 14, the call management server device 13 deletes the time data used for the call included in the “call time” of the user record. Then, a predetermined number of “point balance” is subtracted. As a result, the completion of the call processing at that time and the completion of payment by points are recorded.

  Subsequently, when the utterance instruction unit transmits the utterance instruction data to the call device for outcall 14, the call management server device 13 sets the date / time data indicating the time in the “date / time” of the “history” of the user record to “ The voice ID of the voice data used for the utterance is stored in “voice ID”, and “Yes” is stored in “execution”. Thereby, a history of utterances is recorded.

  The call instruction unit transmits the call instruction data to the call device for outcall 14, and thereafter, the call device for outcall notifies the call instruction unit of the failure to establish the call connection. There is a case. For example, when the mobile phone 11 is in an area where radio waves do not reach, when the power of the mobile phone 11 is turned off, or when the user of the mobile phone 11 does not answer the call, notification of failure to establish a call connection is made. become. In this case, the call instruction unit generates call instruction data for instructing another call, for example, 5 minutes after the original call timing, and transmits the call instruction data to the outcall communication device 14. The out-call communication device 14 makes another call according to the call instruction data.

  If the call connection establishment failure is notified from the out-call call device 14 after the transmission of the call instruction data again, the call management server device 13 sets the current time in the “date” of the “history” of the user record. “No” is stored in “execution” as the date and time data shown. The “voice ID” is blank. As a result, utterance failures are recorded.

  After the user listens to the voice message flowing from the mobile phone 11, for example, until the next voice message is heard on the next day, the user sends the voice message to the designated mail address to send the voice message. Can be evaluated. More specifically, the user inputs one of “very good”, “good”, “normal”, “bad”, and “very bad” into the title using the mobile phone 11 and enters the designated e-mail address. After specifying the destination, the text is sent with the blank.

  The e-mail transmitted as described above is received by the call management server device 13 via a mail server device not shown in FIG. The call management server device 13 searches for a user record from the user DB (see FIG. 2) using the email address of the received e-mail as a search key, and the “execution” shown in the “history” of the searched user record is “ “Yes” and “date and time” of the newest data “voice ID” are specified. The voice ID specified in this way indicates the voice data to be evaluated by the user, that is, the voice that has finally flowed from the mobile phone 11.

  After adding a new evaluation record to the evaluation DB (see FIG. 4), the call management server device 13 sets the “voice ID” and “call date” of the evaluation record to which the voice ID specified in the user record and the date and time corresponding thereto are added. When the title of the received e-mail is “very good”, “5”, “4” if “good”, “3” if “normal”, “2” if “bad”. If “very bad”, “1” is stored in “evaluation”.

  Based on the evaluation DB data updated sequentially as described above, the call management server device 13 performs ranking such as ranking by voice actor, ranking by animation title, ranking by character, and provides the result as a ranking display screen to the user. . More specifically, for example, the user can display a ranking display screen by inputting a predetermined URL in the browser of the PC 12, and know the contents.

  Further, the user can give an instruction to stop, change the time, add the time, etc. during the specified period of the time call, for example, by transmitting an e-mail from the mobile phone 11 to the specified mail address. More specifically, the user inputs text such as “stop (1 day)”, “change (07:30)”, “add (12:00)” to the title using the mobile phone 11 and is designated. After specifying the e-mail address as the destination, send the message with the body blank.

  The e-mail transmitted as described above is received by the call management server device 13 via the mail server device. The call management server device 13 retrieves the user record from the user DB (see FIG. 2) using the email address of the received email as a search key, and the title of the email that has received the “call time” of the retrieved user record Rewrite according to.

  For example, when “stop (1 day)” is included in the title, the call management server device 13 deletes the time data included in “call time” indicating the time included in one day from the current time. . As a result, the time call for the mobile phone 11 is not performed for one day thereafter.

  For example, when “change (07:30)” is included in the title, the call management server device 13 uses the time data included in “call time” to indicate the most recent time as the specified time ( That is, the time data is rewritten as 07:30). Thereby, for example, the next day's time call is made at a different time.

  For example, when “addition (12:00)” is included in the title, the call management server device 13 adds time data indicating the specified time closest to that time to “call time”. For example, if the time is 14:00, time data indicating 12:00 of the next day is added to the “call time”. Thus, for example, only on the next day, the time call is additionally performed at the designated time.

  The method for changing the setting of the time call time using e-mail has been described above by using an example, but various other setting changes can be made in the same manner.

  In addition to the above-described time call, that is, outcall service, the call system 1 makes it possible to listen to time guidance by a favorite voice actor by calling a predetermined telephone number at a timing desired by the user. We also provide services.

  When the user wants to use the in-call service, the user uses the mobile phone 11 to call the telephone number corresponding to the voice of the animated character by the favorite voice actor. In response to the operation, the mobile phone 11 makes a call to the in-call communication device 15. The call is accompanied by the telephone number of the mobile phone 11. The in-call communication device 15 receives incoming call notification data including a telephone number (calling source telephone number) associated with a call from the mobile phone 11 and a telephone number (calling destination telephone number) of the in-call communication device 15. Is transmitted to the call management server device 13.

  The call management server device 13 searches for a user record from the user DB (see FIG. 2) using the telephone number included in the incoming call notification data as a search key. If the search is successful and if the “point balance” of the searched user record is sufficient for the in-call service charge, the call management server device 13 instructs the in-call call device 15 to establish a call connection. To do. In response to the instruction, the in-call call device 15 establishes a call connection with the mobile phone 11.

  The in-call communication device 15 transmits a call connection establishment completion notification to the call management server device 13. In response to the completion notification, the utterance instruction unit of the call management server device 13 reads “time” from the sub-DB of the in-call voice DB (see FIG. 5) specified by the telephone number of the in-call call device 15 received earlier. ”Is sequentially read out the in-call audio record indicating the time according to the current time measured by the time measuring unit, the audio data specified by the“ audio data file name ”of the read record is read from the storage unit, and the read audio Utterance instruction data including the data and time data indicating the utterance time is generated and transmitted to the in-call communication device 15. The in-call communication device 15 performs an utterance process according to the utterance instruction data sequentially transmitted from the call management server device 13. As a result, the cellular phone 11 provides voice time guidance by the voice actor desired by the user.

  Note that the call management server device 13 subtracts a predetermined number of “point balance” of the user record at the timing of receiving a call connection establishment completion notification from the in-call call device 15, for example. Thereby, the completion of payment by points for the in-call service is recorded.

  As described above, according to the call system 1, the user can use the time call service without getting tired while enjoying the contents of the daily voice message.

[1.3. Modified example]
The above-described embodiments are specific examples of the present invention and can be variously modified within the scope of the technical idea. Examples of such modifications are shown below.

  In the embodiment described above, the location data acquired by the mobile phone 11 is transmitted from the mobile phone 11 to the call management server device 13 via the Internet. However, the location data is transmitted to the call management server device 13. The route is not limited to that. For example, a configuration may be employed in which the location data of the mobile phone 11 is automatically automatically transmitted to the call management server device 13 via the mobile phone carrier (carrier) of the mobile phone 11.

  Further, instead of transmitting location data from the mobile phone 11 to the call management server device 13 via a Web page, a configuration is adopted in which location data is transmitted from the mobile phone 11 to the call management server device 13 in the form of e-mail, for example. May be. For example, if the mobile phone 11 is a phone that can execute flexible processing according to the application, such as a smartphone, the mobile phone 11 automatically generates an e-mail including position data periodically and transmits it. May be adopted.

  Moreover, when the mobile phone 11 is outside a predetermined area, such as when the user is overseas, a configuration may be employed in which the call management server device 13 does not execute a time call for the mobile phone 11. .

  In the above-described embodiment, the grade given to the user is determined according to the number of calls in the past predetermined period. However, the grade determination method is not limited to this, and for example, in the past predetermined period. A configuration in which the grade is determined according to the time of the executed utterance may be adopted.

  In the above-described embodiment, the telephone number of the call destination is the mobile telephone number. However, the outcall communication device 14 may make a call to the fixed telephone number.

  In the above-described embodiment, the user registration is performed from the mobile phone 11 and the user setting is performed from the PC 12. For example, the user registration is performed from the PC 12 or the user setting is performed from the mobile phone 11. It is good also as a structure which can do this.

  Further, in the above-described embodiment, the telephone number used for the time call is fixedly assigned to each of the outcall communication devices 14, but an unused telephone number is arbitrarily assigned at the time of outgoing call. A configuration may be employed in which the telephone number assigned to the outcall communication device 14 and the telephone number to which the outcall communication device 14 is assigned is used as the caller telephone number. The same applies to the in-call communication device 15.

  In the above-described embodiment, the out-call communication device 14 and the in-call communication device 15 are different devices from the call management server device 13, but the out-call communication device 14 and the in-call communication device 15 are different. A configuration in which one or both of the communication devices 15 are built in the call management server device 13 may be adopted.

  In the above-described embodiment, the charge associated with the use of the call system 1 is paid by charging the points. For example, the mobile phone carrier (carrier) of the mobile phone 11 together with the call charge of the mobile phone 11 is used. Other billing methods may be employed, such as charging a fee from

  Further, in the above-described embodiment, points can be given only by charging. However, for example, when the user's answer to the “main” voice message is a correct answer, points are given. The grant rules can be changed in various ways.

  In the above-described embodiment, the selection of the audio data used for the time call is not affected by whether or not it has been used in the past. For example, the “history” of the user record is referred to. Accordingly, a configuration may be employed in which audio data used in the past (or within a certain period of time in the past) is excluded from the options or the frequency of selection is reduced. By doing so, the probability that the same voice will flow to the user is lowered, so that the service becomes more boring.

  In the embodiment described above, data indicating the answer transmitted from the mobile phone 11 to the call management server device 13 by the user's push operation or the like in response to the “main” voice message is recorded, and the answer results of many users A configuration using such data, such as publishing on a Web page, may be adopted. According to such a configuration, it is possible to use the system by conducting a questionnaire for the user and totaling the results.

  The utterance instruction device according to the present invention can be widely used in the service industry related to information provision.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Call system, 11 ... Mobile telephone, 12 ... PC, 13 ... Call management server apparatus, 14 ... Outcall call apparatus, 15 ... Incall call apparatus, 16 ... Weather information provision server apparatus

Claims (10)

A plurality of voice data indicating each of a plurality of voices and voice attribute data indicating a voice attribute indicated by the voice data relating to each of the plurality of voice data are stored in association with each other, and one or more call destinations are stored. Storage means for storing a telephone number and selection condition data indicating a condition regarding selection of voice data and time data indicating a time at which a call should be made for each of the telephone numbers of the call destination;
A time measuring means for measuring the current time;
With respect to each of the one or more time data stored in the storage means, before the current time measured by the time measurement means reaches the time indicated by the time data, it is associated with the time data in the storage means. The plurality of audio data stored in the storage unit is stored as one audio data stored in the storage unit in association with audio attribute data indicating an attribute that satisfies the condition indicated by the stored selection condition data. Selecting means for selecting as voice data corresponding to the telephone number of the call destination stored in the storage means in association with the time data,
With respect to each of the one or more time data stored in the storage means, the current time measured by the time measuring means is associated with the time data at the timing when the current time reaches the time indicated by the time data. A call instruction means for instructing a built-in or external communication device to make a call to a stored call destination telephone number;
When a call connection is established in response to a call in accordance with a call instruction by the call instruction means, the call used for establishing the call connection selected by the selection means via the call connection. An utterance instruction device comprising: an utterance instruction means for instructing the telephone device to utter a voice indicated by voice data corresponding to a telephone number of a call destination. At least a part of the plurality of audio attribute data stored in the storage means indicates a situation in the virtual world as an attribute,
The utterance instruction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least a part of the one or more selection condition data stored in the storage unit indicates a condition related to a situation in a virtual world. At least a part of the plurality of audio attribute data stored in the storage means indicates a character appearing in a program constituting a virtual world as an attribute,
At least a part of the one or more selection condition data stored in the storage means indicates a condition regarding characters appearing in a program constituting a virtual world,
The storage means stores program name data indicating the name of the program for each of the one or more programs and character name data indicating the names of the characters for each of the one or more characters appearing in the program in association with each other. And
A terminal device identified by one telephone number among the one or more call destination telephone numbers stored in the storage means or a user stored in the storage means in association with the one telephone number Request data receiving means for receiving search screen transmission request data for requesting transmission of a search screen from a terminal device used by a user identified by the identification data;
When the search screen transmission request data is received by the request data receiving means, at least a part of the one or more program name data and the one or more character name data stored in the storage means Transmitting means for transmitting at least a part to the terminal device;
Designation data reception for receiving program designation data for designating a specific program and character designation data for designating a specific character, which are transmitted from the terminal device in response to transmission of program name data and character name data by the transmission means Means and
The storage means stores the selection condition data stored in association with the telephone number used for identification of the terminal device, and the characters appearing in the program specified by the program designation data received by the designation data receiving means The utterance instruction device according to claim 1, wherein the utterance instruction device is rewritten so as to indicate a condition relating to a character specified by the character designation data received by the designation data receiving means. At least a part of the plurality of voice attribute data stored in the storage means indicates personal information of an arbitrary user as an attribute,
At least a part of the one or more selection condition data stored in the storage means is a terminal device identified by a telephone number of a call destination stored in the storage means in association with the selection condition data. The utterance instruction device according to claim 1, wherein the utterance instruction device indicates a condition related to personal information of the user. At least a part of the plurality of voice attribute data stored in the storage means includes the number of executions of a call instruction by the call instruction device for an arbitrary terminal device and the number of utterances by the utterance instruction device for an arbitrary terminal device. Shows information about at least one of the execution times as an attribute,
At least a part of the one or more selection condition data stored in the storage means corresponds to a terminal device identified by a telephone number of a call destination stored in the storage means in association with the selection condition data. 5. The utterance instruction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the utterance instruction apparatus indicates a condition relating to at least one of a number of executions of the utterance instruction by the utterance instruction apparatus and an execution time of the utterance by the utterance instruction apparatus for the terminal device. The storage means includes fixed time data indicating a plurality of fixed times arranged in a time series at predetermined time intervals with respect to each of the one or more call destination telephone numbers and the one or more call destination telephone numbers. And the voice data corresponding to each of them are stored in association with each other,
There has been an incoming call from the telephone device to a telephone number of one of the one or more called telephone numbers stored in the storage means from a telephone number of one calling party. Notification data acquisition means for acquiring incoming call notification data indicating:
The utterance instructing means includes a telephone number of one calling source indicated by the incoming call notification data acquired by the notification data acquiring means in the one or more call destination telephone numbers stored in the storage means. If it is included, the current time measured by the time measuring means reaches one of the plurality of fixed times, and is associated with the telephone number of one called destination indicated by the incoming call notification data. 6. An instruction to utter the voice indicated by the voice data stored in the storage means and stored in association with the fixed time data indicating the fixed time is given to the call device. The utterance instruction device described in 1. At least a part of the one or more call destination telephone numbers stored in the storage means is a telephone number of a mobile phone;
At least a part of the plurality of audio attribute data stored in the storage unit indicates a place or an event in the real world that changes depending on the place as an attribute,
At least a part of the one or more selection condition data stored in the storage means indicates a condition related to an event in the real world that changes depending on a place or a place,
Position data receiving means for receiving position data indicating the current position of the mobile phone from a mobile phone identified by one of the one or more call destination telephone numbers stored in the storage means; Prepared,
The utterance instruction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the selection unit selects the voice data based on a current position of the mobile phone indicated by the position data received by the position data reception unit. The storage means stores text data indicating one or more predetermined texts and rewrite rule data indicating rewriting rules of time data corresponding to each of the one or more text data in association with each other,
The storage means stores an e-mail address in association with each of at least a part of the one or more call destination telephone numbers;
A mail receiving means for receiving an e-mail from the mail server device;
The storage means includes a transmission included in the e-mail when the e-mail received by the e-mail receiving means includes one text data of the one or more text data stored in the storage means. The time data stored in association with the original e-mail address is rewritten according to the rewrite rule data stored in association with the one text data included in the e-mail. The utterance instruction device described. The storage means stores evaluation data indicating an evaluation regarding each of the plurality of audio data or each of a plurality of groups obtained by grouping the plurality of audio data.
The storage means stores text data indicating one or more predetermined texts and rewrite rule data indicating rewrite rules for evaluation data corresponding to each of the one or more text data in association with each other,
The storage means stores an e-mail address in association with each of at least a part of the one or more call destination telephone numbers;
A mail receiving means for receiving an e-mail from the mail server device;
The storage means includes, when the email received by the mail reception means includes one text data of the one or more text data stored in the storage means, the email included in the email A call established using the telephone number of the call destination stored in association with the e-mail address of the transmission source included in the e-mail according to the rewrite rule data stored in association with the text data of 1 The utterance instruction device according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the evaluation data is rewritten so as to change an evaluation relating to voice data used for an instruction of utterance by the utterance instruction means via a connection. At least a part of the plurality of voice data stored in the storage means includes question data that indicates a question by voice and two or more response data that indicates a response corresponding to each of two or more answers to the question by voice. Including
After the speech of the voice indicated by the question data included in one voice data is executed by the telephone device, an answer indicating one answer transmitted from the telephone of the utterance destination to the telephone device as a response to the speech Answer data acquisition means for acquiring data from the call device;
The utterance instructing unit responds to one answer indicated by the answer data acquired by the answer data acquiring unit among the two or more response data included in the one voice data stored in the storage unit. The utterance instruction device according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the utterance of a voice indicated in response data indicating a response is instructed to the call device.

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