Data processing: speech signal processing – linguistics – language – Speech signal processing – Synthesis
Patent
1997-12-31
1999-11-30
Hudspeth, David R.
Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language
Speech signal processing
Synthesis
704275, 704271, 704255, 434169, 434167, 434157, G10L 300, G10L 506, G09B 1908, G09B 1906, G09B 1904
Patent
active
059959320
ABSTRACT:
A training system used while a person is speaking uses a feedback modification technique to reduce accents. As the speaker is speaking, the system feeds back to the speaker the speaker's speech in "real-time" so that the speaker, in effect, hears what he or she is saying while saying it. The system includes a detector configured to monitor a speaker's speech to detect a preselected target vowel sound that the speaker wishes to produce accurately. In response to the detector detecting a "target" vowel sound, a cue generator generates a sensory cue (e.g., an amplification of the "target" vowel sound) that is perceived by the speaker. As the speaker is speaking, the generator feeds back to the speaker the sensory cue along with the speech so that the cue is coincident with the "target" vowel sound.
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Chawan Vijay B
Hudspeth David R.
Scientific Learning Corporation
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