Lucent Technologies Inc.

Nadine Blackwood

Qi P Li

Katherine Grace August

Michelle McNerney

Chi-Lin Shih

Qiru Zhou

Jialin Zhong

Arun Chandrasekaran Surendran

A method and apparatus for interactive language instruction is provided that displays text files for processing, provide key features and functions for interactive learning, displays facial animation, and provides a workspace for language building functions. The system includes a stored set of language rules as part of the text-to-speech sub-system, as well as another stored set of rules as applied to the process of learning a language. The method implemented by the system includes digitally converting text to audible speech, providing the audible speech to a user or student (with the aid of an animated image in selected circumstances), prompting the student to replicate the audible speech, comparing the student's replication with the audible speech provided by the system, and providing feedback and reinforcement to the student by, for example, selectively recording or playing back the audible speech and the student's replication.

Method and apparatus for interactive language instruction

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Matawan, NJ, United States of America

Nadine Blackwood