Industrial Technology Research Institute

Wei-Che Chuang

Yu-Hsien Chiu

Chi-Chun Hsia

Kuo-Yuan Li

A method and mobile device for awareness of language ability are provided. 'Repeated pattern index'-related properties, such as, a vocabulary usage amount, a vocabulary type, or a ratio, a time point, a time length or repeated contents of a repeated voice segment, and 'community interaction index'-related properties, such as, a number of persons who speak with a user, a conversation time length, or whether the user talks alone during each time interval, are extracted according to voice data collected by a voice collection element worn on the user. Then, a language ability of the user is further calculated, so as to provide evaluation of the language ability of a dementia patient for reference.

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Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Wei-Che Chuang