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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2008
Jayadeva, New Delhi, IN;
Sachindra Joshi, New Delhi, IN;
Himanshu Pant, Uttaranchal, IN;
Ashish Verma, New Delhi, IN;
Jayadeva, New Delhi, IN;
Sachindra Joshi, New Delhi, IN;
Himanshu Pant, Uttaranchal, IN;
Ashish Verma, New Delhi, IN;
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
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.