METHOD FOR TEACHING SPOKEN ENGISH USING MOUTH POSITION CHARACTERS

Patent №

US 5,286,205

Granted

1994-02-15

Filed 1992

Owner

INOUYE, KEN K.

+1 more

Lab

AI components

2

nlp · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

07942021

This speech training system enables students to rapidly acquire and perfect their pronunciation of English phrases by speaking along with videos presenting English phrases accompanied by conventionally-spelled English text and characters representing the correct mouth positions. Students learn the mouth positions, then listen to a phrase, speak it simultaneously following the mouth position characters, and read the text. Students of this method can compare their mouth movements to a model of standard pronunciation visually and auditorily. Students of English thus have a more reliable audiovisual means of learning and practicing correct English pronunciation.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Vision0.35
AI hardware0.01
Machine learning0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

INOUYE, KEN K.

assignment · 63070157

KEN K. INOUYE

assignment · 63070773

Assignors

INOUYE, LUNA M., SHERES, SIDNEY C.

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

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