Sony Corporation

Tamihei Hiramatsu

Yoshiko Matsushita

Ryuji Suzuki

Akira Masuda

Isao Matsumoto

Shigeki Wakatani

Tetsuzo Kano

Taiji Kitami

Individual training stations are able to record and play back a student's own pronunciations as well as to reproduce the recorded pronunciations of the fellow students and of prerecorded voice teaching aids by means of a digital memory and controller.

Language laboratory systems

A group education system including a first memory for storing an original sentence group, a second memory for storing a starting address, an end address of a sentence block of an original sentence group stored in the first memory, a control circuit for controlling the selection of a playback mode and the reading order of the sentence blocks of the original sentence group stored in the first memory and the change of the pause times thereof and a third memory for storing the reading order, the starting address, the end address and the altered pause times of the selected sentence block under the control of the control circuit. Accordingly, it becomes possible to form with ease a sentence group in which the playback mode and the reproducing order of the selected sentence block are selected and the pause times between the sentence blocks are changed.

Group education system

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoshiko Matsushita