READING PROGRESS ESTIMATION BASED ON PHONETIC FUZZY MATCHING AND CONFIDENCE INTERVAL

Patent №

US 11,526,671

Granted

2022-12-13

Filed 2019

Owner

GOOGLE LLC

AI components

2

nlp · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16610475

An example method for identifying a reading location in a text source as a user reads the text source aloud includes determining phoneme data of the text source, the text source comprising a sequence of words; receiving audio data comprising a spoken word associated with the text source; comparing, by a processing device, the phoneme data of the text source and phoneme data of the audio data; and identifying a location in the sequence of words based on the comparing phoneme data.

Natural languageSpeechG06F 40/284G09B 17/003G10L 15/187G10L 15/26G06N 7/02G10L 2015/025

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
AI hardware0.48
Machine learning0.36
Knowledge representation0.25
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

GOOGLE LLC

assignment · 516120923

Assignors

GHARPURE, CHAITANYA, FISHER, EVAN, LIU, ERIC, YANG, PENG, HOU, EMILY, FANG, VICTORIA

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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