Patent Document ID: 9293129
Application ID: 13785573

Base Claim:
1. A method for determining pronunciation issues, comprising: receiving text comprising sentences for a Text-To-Speech (TTS) component and a recording of the text that is used as a reference for the text; receiving synthesized speech generated by the TTS component using the text as input to the TTS component; evaluating results received by an evaluation performed at a text level by determining a similarity of the synthesized speech to the recording, wherein the evaluation at the text level comprises performing a similarity measurement of a phone sequence of a sentence in the text and a corresponding phone sequence of a sentence in the recording; evaluating results obtained from a Speech Recognition (SR) component related to different inputs to the SR component comprising the synthesized speech and the recording; and generating a list that includes a ranking of pronunciation issue candidates based on the evaluations.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the list that includes the ranking of pronunciation issue candidates comprises filtering out mismatched words for judgment labels based on at least one of the evaluations using the synthesized speech and the recording.