Patent ID: 8340968

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for automatically training diction of a person using an automated system comprising an audio input unit for acquiring the person's speech data stream; a speech processing unit configured with a speech data monitoring program code; and an alarm unit for generating an alarm signal, said method comprising: acquiring a speech data stream of the person using the audio input unit as the person is speaking; identifying words in the speech data stream using the speech processing unit; comparing the words in the speech data stream to a set of predefined undesirable phrases that are grammatically incorrect provided in a look-up table using the speech processing unit; generating the alarm signal using the alarm unit upon detection of at least one of the predefined undesirable phrases that are grammatically incorrect from the look-up table in the speech data stream, storing the number of alarms generated over time, and generating an output indicative of the progress of the speaker according to either an increase or decrease in the number of alarms generated over time.