Automated Content Feedback Generation System for Non-Native Spontaneous Speech

Patent №

US 11,854,530

Granted

2023-12-26

Filed 2020

Owner

EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE

Lab

AI components

4

ml · nlp · speech · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16857305

An electronic audio file is received that comprises spontaneous speech responsive to a prompt in a non-native language of a speaker. Thereafter, the electronic audio file is parsed into a plurality of spoken words. The spoken words are then normalized to remove stop words and disfluencies. At least one trained content scoring model is then used to determine an absence of pre-defined key points associated with the prompt in the normalized spoken words. A list of the determined absent key points can be generated. This list can then be displayed/caused to be displayed in a graphical user interface along with feedback to improve content completeness. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechPlanningG06F 3/04895G10L 15/063G06F 3/048G06F 40/30G06N 3/08G06N 5/01G06N 20/10G06N 20/20+9 more

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Machine learning1.00
Planning0.93
AI hardware0.37
Knowledge representation0.30
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE

assignment · 524840690

Assignors

YOON, SU-YOUN, HSIEH, CHING-NI, ZECHNER, KLAUS, MULHOLLAND, MATTHEW, WANG, YUAN

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