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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2009
OM D. Deshmukh, New Delhi, IN;
Ashish Verma, New Delhi, IN;
Om D. Deshmukh, New Delhi, IN;
Ashish Verma, New Delhi, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Techniques for evaluating one or more spoken language skills of a speaker are provided. The techniques include identifying one or more temporal locations of interest in a speech passage spoken by a speaker, computing one or more acoustic parameters, wherein the one or more acoustic parameters capture one or more properties of one or more acoustic-phonetic features of the one or more locations of interest, and combining the one or more acoustic parameters with an output of an automatic speech recognizer to modify an output of a spoken language skill evaluation.