Luna M Inouye

US Patent:

52862054, Feb 15, 1994

Filed:

Sep 8, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/942021

Inventors:

Ken K. Inouye - Los Angeles CA
Sidney C. Sheres - Los Angeles CA
Luna M. Inouye - Los Angeles CA

International Classification:

G09B 1906

US Classification:

434157

Abstract:

This speech training system enables students to rapidly acquire and perfect their pronunciation of English phrases by speaking along with videos presenting English phrases accompanied by conventionally-spelled English text and characters representing the correct mouth positions. Students learn the mouth positions, then listen to a phrase, speak it simultaneously following the mouth position characters, and read the text. Students of this method can compare their mouth movements to a model of standard pronunciation visually and auditorily. Students of English thus have a more reliable audiovisual means of learning and practicing correct English pronunciation.