Patent ID: 9489939
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G06Q,G10L

Claim Text:
1. A speech server comprising: a speech terminal-specifying information management unit configured to manage one or a plurality of pieces of speech terminal-specifying information and user-specifying information such that each of the one or a plurality of pieces of speech terminal-specifying information and the user-specifying information are associated with each other, each of the one or a plurality of pieces of speech terminal-specifying information allowing a corresponding one of one or a plurality of speech terminals to be specified, the user-specifying information being of a user who is capable of causing the corresponding one of the one or a plurality of speech terminals to output speech; a transmission unit configured to receive the user-specifying information from an external server and transmit, to the external server, the one or a plurality of pieces of speech terminal-specifying information associated with the user-specifying information; a reception unit configured to receive, from the external server, (i) speech terminal-specifying information selected from the one or a plurality of pieces of speech terminal-specifying information transmitted to the external server and (ii) speech information indicative of speech content to be outputted as speech; and a speech instruction unit configured to instruct a speech terminal to output the speech content as speech, the speech terminal being identified among the one or a plurality of speech terminals by the speech terminal-specifying information received from the external server.