NATURAL MACHINE CONVERSING METHOD AND APPARATUS

Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with a spoken dialogue system are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus for natural machine conversing with a user may comprise a listeningcomponent to detect a keyword that denotes start of a conversation; a dialogue engine to converse with the user during the conversation; and a controller to selectively activate or cause to be activated one of the listening component or the dialogue component, and to pass control to the activated listening component or the activated dialogue engine, based at least in part on a state of the conversation. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed. 本文中公开了与口语对话系统相关联的设备、方法以及存储介质。在实施例中，用于与用户进行自然机器会话的设备可包括监听组件，用于检测表示会话的开始的关键字；对话引擎，用于在会话期间与用户进行会话；以及控制器，用于至少部分地基于会话的状态选择性地激活监听组件或对话组件中的一个或者导致监听组件或对话组件中的一个被激活，并且将控制传递到激活的监听组件或激活的对话引擎。可公开或要求保护其它实施例。