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Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012

Filed:

Jun. 27, 2008
Applicants:

Jayadeva, New Delhi, IN;

Sachindra Joshi, New Delhi, IN;

Himanshu Pant, Uttaranchal, IN;

Ashish Verma, New Delhi, IN;

Inventors:

Jayadeva, New Delhi, IN;

Sachindra Joshi, New Delhi, IN;

Himanshu Pant, Uttaranchal, IN;

Ashish Verma, New Delhi, IN;

Assignee:

Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 17/00 (2006.01); G09B 19/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Techniques for assessing pronunciation abilities of a user are provided. The techniques include recording a sentence spoken by a user, performing a classification of the spoken sentence, wherein the classification is performed with respect to at least one N-ordered class, and wherein the spoken sentence is represented by a set of at least one acoustic feature extracted from the spoken sentence, and determining a score based on the classification, wherein the score is used to determine an optimal set of at least one question to assess pronunciation ability of the user without human intervention.


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