Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho

Ryoichi Endoh

Sadaaki Ezawa

Katsuhiro Hashimoto

Hiroaki Takano

Michiko Nihei

An apparatus for drilling pronunciation has a voice analyzer for analyzing voice signals produced by a speaker during pronunciation, a memory for storing at least the result of the voice analysis, and a display for displaying at least the result of the voice analysis. The apparatus further includes a plurality of keys, each of the keys being operable by a user, and circuitry for controlling two screen constitutions independently of each other on the display in response to manipulation of the keys whereby the screen constitutions display the result of the voice analysis in a comparative manner.

Apparatus for drilling pronunciation

An apparatus for drilling the pronunciation of language has a transducer for forming drill voice signals representing a practice utterance of a trainee and a reproducer for generating reference voice signals representing model pronunciation of the utterance. The drill and reference voice signals are compared by a processor and a sensible signal is produced to indicate whether the practice utterance corresponds to the model pronunciation.

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Ryoichi Endoh