Data processing: speech signal processing – linguistics – language – Speech signal processing – Application
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-20
2007-11-20
Smits, Talivaldis Ivars (Department: 2626)
Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language
Speech signal processing
Application
C704S001000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10361256
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for generating a pronunciation score by receiving a user phrase intended to conform to a reference phrase and processing the user phrase in accordance with at least one of an articulation-scoring engine, a duration scoring engine and an intonation-scoring engine to derive thereby the pronunciation score. The scores provided by the various scoring engines are adapted to provide a visual and/or numerical feedback that provides information pertaining to correctness or incorrectness in one or more speech-features such as intonation, articulation, voicing, phoneme error and relative word duration. Such useful interactive feedback will allow a user to quickly identify the problem area and take remedial action in reciting “tutor” sentences or phrases.
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Gupta Sunil K.
Lu Ziyi
Raghavan Prabhu
Sayeed Zulfiquar
Sethuraman Aravind
Lucent Technologies - Inc.
Rider Justin W
Smits Talivaldis Ivars
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