US Patent Issued to VIA TECHNOLOGIES on April 7 for "Speaking practice system with reliable pronunciation evaluation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,422, issued on April 7, was assigned to VIA TECHNOLOGIES INC. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Speaking practice system with reliable pronunciation evaluation" was invented by Jing-Jing Guo (Shanghai) and Steve Shu Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Goodness of pronunciation (GOP) evaluation techniques with improved reliability are presented. A data preprocessing server operates a data pre-processing system and a GOP evaluation system. The data pre-processing system includes a phonetic symbol generation system and an audio recording preprocessing system. Based on a practice text as well as an audio recording of the user reading ...