US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 9 for "Speech practice with media content synchronization" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,605, issued on June 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Speech practice with media content synchronization" was invented by Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes detecting by a Speech Detection Component of a system a speech metric of a speaker in response to a reference speech. The embodiment includes responsive to the detected speech metric, computing by a Speech Analysis Component of the system a deviation metric between the speech metric and the reference speech. The embodiment includes training a ma...