METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VOICE-INTERACTIVE LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION

摘要

Spoken-language instruction method and apparatus employ context-based speech recognition for instruction and evaluation. A finite state grammar set (113) corresponding to the range of word sequence patterns in the lesson is employed as a constraint on a hidden Markov model (HMM) search apparatus in an HMM speech recognizer (112). The invention includes a system with an interactive decision mechanism which employs at least three levels of error tolerance to simulate a natural level of patience in human-based interactive instruction. A linguistically-sensitive utterance endpoint detector is provided for judging termination of a spoken utterance to simulate human turn-taking in conversational speech.