In order to have robots perform communication with excellent emotionality, a speech and behavior control device (1) comprises: an utterance content selection unit (16) to select utterance content for a robot (100) from among a plurality of utterances; an operation control unit (17) to operate a movable part (13) on the basis of the type of emotion corresponding to the utterance content; and a speech control unit (18) to output the utterance content from the robot (100) as speech after the operation of the movable part (13) starts.
SPEECH AND BEHAVIOR CONTROL DEVICE, ROBOT, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SPEECH AND BEHAVIOR CONTROL DEVICE