Patent Issued for Estimating a Listener'S Ability to Understand a Speaker, Based on Comparisons of Their Styles of Speech

摘要

Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Even when two people are speaking the same language, and have a good command of that language's vocabulary and grammar, differences between them in their manner of speaking, e.g., differences in accent, pronunciation accuracy, prosody, speech, pitch, cadence, intonation, co-articulation, syllable emphasis, syllable duration, and the like, can affect the ease with which they understand each other's speech. Although such differences can occur among people who are native speakers of the same language, the problem can be especially noticeable when a talker's speech patterns have been influenced by the talker being accustomed to a language other than the one to which the listener is accustomed."nnIn addition to obtaining background information on this patent, VerticalNews editors also obtained the inventor's summary information for this patent: "A particularly interesting scenario in which this occurs is in off-shore contact centers.