Patent ID: 6397185
Filing Date: 2002-05-28
Classification: G09B,G10L

Abstract:
A speech analysis system for voice and pronunciation training, the system stored as a series of programmed routines on a removable item of storage media, the system comprising:a data file that stores a pre-recorded utterance by a native speaker comprising a sequence of syllables and a first example metric corresponding to a pitch value of a vocal part of each one of the sequence of syllables; a speech capture routine that captures a sample utterance spoken by a user; a segmentation routine that segments the sample utterance into a sequence of syllables; a computation routine that computes a first sample metric corresponding to a pitch value of a vocal part of each one of the sequence of syllables for the sample utterance; and a display routine for graphically displaying the first example metric and the first sample metric to the user on a side-by-side basis.