Patent Document ID: 5393236
Application ID: 07951675

Base Claim:
1. An interactive computer system for teaching pronunciation and accent reduction to a user comprises: a processor; a memory, coupled to said processor, said memory having stored therein a set of instructions corresponding to a plurality of presequenced accent reduction lessons for execution in a predetermined order by said processor wherein the predetermined order is determined by the user selecting a first one of: (a) the native language of the user; and (b) a subject area, wherein said subject area is selected from the group consisting of an engineering subject area and a physical science subject area; an input interface, coupled to said processor, for providing a user with control over the sequence in which the accent reduction lessons are executed by said processor; a monitor, coupled to said processor, for displaying visual indicators to the user, wherein said visual indicators correspond to said instructions; an audio input/output device, coupled to said processor, for recording sounds spoken by a user and for playing prerecorded sounds stored in said memory; and a speech processor, coupled to said processor and said audio input/output device, for providing stored signals to said audio input/output device, wherein in response to an instruction displayed on said monitor, a user speaks a sound into said audio input/output device and the sound is stored in said memory and the sound corresponds to a first one of: (a) a word; (b) a phrase; and (c) a sentence; and wherein said pre-recorded sounds in said memory correspond to stored digitized signals representative of the sound spoken by the user into said audio input/output device.

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Claim 2:
2. The interactive computer system of claim 1, wherein: in response to a predetermined instruction, a user speaks a sound into said audio input/output device and said sound is stored in the memory as a stored signal and said sound corresponds to a first one of: (a) a word; (b) a phrase; and (c) a sentence; and said pre-recorded sounds stored correspond to sequenced and stored digitized signals representative of the sound spoken into said audio input/output device, graphical user interface to Select program options and perform selected lessons; the processor calculates the percentage of correct and incorrect utterances spoken by the user; and the processor stores a result corresponding to the percentage of correct and incorrect utterances spoken by the user in a first predetermined memory location dedicated to the user.