Interactive speech pronunciation apparatus and method

Education and demonstration – Language – Spelling – phonics – word recognition – or sentence formation

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434185, 434308, 381 51, 36441903, G09B 500

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ABSTRACT:
An interactive speech pronunciation system for teaching pronunciation and reducing the accent of a user includes a memory for storing a plurality of presequenced lessons, an input interface for allowing a user to select predetermined ones of the presequenced lessons, a processor for executing program steps corresponding to the lessons selected by the user, and a monitor for displaying visual indicators to the user of the system. The speech pronunciation system further includes an audio input device, for recording sounds spoken by the user, an audio output device for transducing signals fed thereto to pre-recorded sounds and a speech processor for providing stored signals to the audio output device.

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