摘要 |
A training system used while a person is speaking uses a feedback modification technique to reduce accents. As the speaker is speaking, the system feeds back to the speaker, the speaker's speech in "real-time", so that the speaker, in effect, hears what he or she is saying while saying it. The system includes a detector configured to monitor a speaker's speech to detect a preselected target vowel sound that the speaker wishes to produce accurately. In response to the detector (401), detecting a "target" vowel sound, a cue generator (402) generates a sensory cue (e.g., an amplification of the "target" vowel sound) that is perceived by the speaker. As the speaker is speaking, the generator (402) feeds back to the speaker the sensory cue along with the speech so that the cue is coincident with the "target" vowel sound. |