Method and System for Generating, Rating, and Storing a Pronunciation Corpus

摘要

A method and system of generating, rating, and storing a pronunciation corpus is provided. The system ("Dico") is an interactive system resident on a data network such as the Internet or intranet. Dico provides a platform for maintaining and serving the corpus in such a way that the corpus can be expanded continuously with new phrases and new pronunciations received from the users of Dico. A user of Dico can take the role of a contributor or a listener. Contributors use Dico's contribution tool to contribute new pronunciations and phrases to Dico's corpus. Listeners use Dico's playback tool to listen to the contributed pronunciations in Dico's corpus. Listeners can also rate the contributed pronunciations using Dico's rating tool. Dico uses the ratings to determine the quality of the contributed pronunciations and use this information to rank the pronunciations. The collective actions and knowledge of Dico's users enable Dico to determine the best pronunciations for each phrase in its corpus.