Title: Reading and pronunciation tutor
Application Number: 98807886 Application Date: 1998.06.01
Publication Number: 1265767 Publication Date: 2000.09.06
Approval Pub. Date: 2004.11.03 Granted Pub. Date: 2004.11.03
International Classifi-cation: G09B5/06;G09B17/00;G09B19/04
Applicant(s) Name: Carnegie Mellon Univ. Address:
Inventor(s) Name: J. Mostow
Attorney & Agent: zou guangxin
Abstract:
    A computer implemented reading tutor comprises a player (28) for outputting a response. An input block (20) implementing a plurality of functions such as silence detection, speech recognition, etc. captures the read material. A tutoring function (22) compares the output of the speech recognizer to the text which was supposed to have been read and generates a response, as needed, based on information in a knowledge base (24) and an optional student model (26). The response is output to the user through the player (28). A quality control function (33) evaluates the captured read material and stores the captured material in the knowledge base (24) under certain conditions. An auto-enhancement function (44) uses information available to the tutor to create additonal resources such as identifying rhyming words, words with common roots, etc., which can be used as responses.
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