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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 26, 2015
Applicant:

Educational Testing Service, Princton, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Anastassia Loukina, Bellport, NY (US);

Keelan Evanini, Pennington, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09B 19/04 (2006.01); G10L 15/187 (2013.01); G10L 15/19 (2013.01); G10L 25/60 (2013.01); G10L 25/69 (2013.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G10L 15/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 25/60 (2013.01); G09B 19/04 (2013.01); G10L 25/69 (2013.01); G10L 15/187 (2013.01); G10L 15/1822 (2013.01); G10L 15/19 (2013.01); G10L 15/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for generating an intelligibility score for speech of a non-native speaker. Words in a speech recording are identified using an automated speech recognizer, where the automated speech recognizer provides a string of words identified in the speech recording, and where the automated speech recognizer further provides an acoustic model likelihood score for each word in the string of words. For a particular word in the string of words, a context metric value is determined based upon a usage of the particular word within the string of words. An acoustic score for the particular word is determined based on the acoustic model likelihood score for the particular word from the automated speech recognizer. An intelligibility score is determined for the particular word based on the acoustic score for the particular word and the context metric value for the particular word.


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