Patent ID: 7634410

Claim:
A method of practicing speaking a language being studied, in which an audio signal emitted by a subject (S) is reproduced to the auditory organs of said subject (S) after real time processing, which method is characterized in that it comprises the following steps: acquisition (E 10 , E 50 ) of a model audio signal to be imitated; emission (E 22 ) of the model audio signal to be imitated to the auditory organs of the subject (S); first spectral analysis (E 11 , E 51 ) of said model audio signal that has been emitted; acquisition (E 13 , E 53 ) of an imitation audio signal that corresponds to the model audio signal and has been imitated by the subject (S) while the subject is practicing speaking the language being studied; second spectral analysis (E 15 , E 55 ) of the imitation audio signal; comparison (E 16 , E 56 ) of the spectra of the model audio signal and the imitation audio signal; correction (E 18 , E 58 ) of the imitation audio signal as a function of the result of said comparison, wherein at least the second spectral analysis step, the comparison step, and the correction step are carried out in real time and constitute the real time processing; and after the real time processing, reproduction (E 22 , E 62 ) to the auditory organs of the subject (S) of the corrected imitation audio signal.