US Patent Issued to Syracuse University on Nov. 3 for "Clinical speech analysis system for childhood speech disorders" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,492, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Syracuse University (Syracuse, N.Y.).

"Clinical speech analysis system for childhood speech disorders" was invented by Nina Benway (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Jonathan Preston (Jamesville, N.Y.) and Asif Salekin (Syracuse, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech analysis system that can accurately determine whether a predetermined sound in a spoken work has been correctly pronounced. The speech analysis system includes a machine learning algorithm that has been trained to consider temporal and spectral information about the frame-by-frame components of a target sound. The speech analysis system is...