Patent ID: 6227863
Filing Date: 2001-05-08
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
A phonics training system adapted to teach a pre-school child having a limited vocabulary of words that identify various objects to spell these words and thereby be able to read; said system comprising:A. a computer having an output terminal provided with a video screen;B. an electronic dictionary associated with the computer in which is digitally stored the phonetic sounds of the words in the limited vocabulary of the pre-school child that identify objects and the letters of the alphabet that spell each word; said electronics dictionary being contained in software downloaded into the memory of the computer;C. an image library associated with the computer in which is digitally stored images of said objects identified by the limited vocabulary; andD. means including a voice recognition unit in the input of said computer, the unit acting to recognize the distinctive sound pattern of the child speaking into the unit and to condition the phonetic dictionary to respond to this pattern, whereby when the child speaks into the unit a specific word included in the dictionary identifying a particular object, the output of the unit is digitized and the computer then acts to scan the dictionary to find the corresponding phonetic sounds digitally stored therein, and when a match is found to present on the screen the letters which spell the specific word and the image of the object identified thereby.