Patent Document ID: 8401856
Application ID: 12781162

Base Claim:
1. A method to improve communications understandability comprising: receiving speech from a speaker; identifying one or more distinct speech events in the received speech; representing one or more of the one or more distinct speech events as an adjustable speech production parameter; detecting a language of the speech; detecting a native language of the speaker; utilizing a knowledge base of pronunciation patterns and vocabularies for the language of the speech and the native language to determine an incorrect syllable duration caused by a mispronunciation; and adjusting at least one of duration and amplitude parameters associated with the mispronunciation to one or more of lengthen, shorten, emphasize or deemphasize the syllable; using the adjusted at least one of duration and amplitude parameters to regenerate and present modified speech with at least one of corrected syllabic timing and emphasis to a listener, wherein the listener can select via a feedback module to listen to the speech and the modified speech simultaneously; wherein the receiving, the identifying, the representing, the utilizing, and the adjusting are performed by modules in a normalization system.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising providing feedback to a speaker.