Reading proficiency system and method
AssigneeSee Word Design, LLC
InventorsRenée Seward, Oscar Fernández, Akshat Srivastava, Frida Estefanía Medrano García
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Abstract
A method for improving reading proficiency in persons in need of improvement. The method includes the steps of providing a body of digital text on an electronic device; extracting a selected portion of digital text from the body of digital text; analyzing the selected portion by natural language processing to produce a phonetical font, the phonetical font including a representation of a letter that when heard or said voices a phoneme of the letter; rendering the analyzed selected portion into the phonetical font; and utilizing the phonetical font to increase reading proficiency.
Claims20
A method for providing accessibility features to a user of a user device comprising:
- (a) storing a set of phonemes, wherein each phoneme of the set of phonemes is associated with a set of icons, and each icon of the set of icons depicts an object whose voiced description includes that phoneme;
- (b) receiving a set of digital text from the user device and selecting a target portion of digital text from the set of digital text, wherein the target portion of digital text comprises a letterform;
- (c) identifying a phoneme of the target portion of digital text and producing a glyph based on:
- an icon of the set of icons that corresponds to the phoneme of the target portion of digital text;
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- (ii) the letterform of the target portion of digital text;
- (d) providing a glyph dataset to the user device that comprises the glyph, wherein the glyph dataset is configured to cause the user device to, while displaying the set of digital text, morph the target portion of digital text to instead display the glyph.
A method for providing phonetical fonts, the method comprising:
- (a) storing a set of phonemes, wherein each phoneme of the set of phonemes is associated with a set of icons and at least one letterform of a plurality of letterforms, and each icon of the set of icons depicts an object whose voiced description includes that phoneme;
- (b) creating a plurality of glyphs for the plurality of phonemes, each based on an icon of the set of icons that corresponds to a phoneme of the plurality of phonemes and a letterform of the plurality of letterforms associated with the phoneme;
- (c) creating a phonetical font based upon the plurality of glyphs and the plurality of letterforms, wherein the phonetical font is configured to cause a user device to selectively display, for each letterform of the plurality of letterforms, the letterform or one of the plurality of glyphs corresponding to the letterform, and providing the phonetical font to a user device;
- (d) causing the user device to, based on a user input identifying a target portion of digital text displayed by the user device:
- (i) identify a phoneme of the target portion of digital text;
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- (ii) use the phonetical font to morph the target portion of digital text to instead display a glyph of the plurality of glyphs that corresponds to the identified phoneme.
A system for rendering phonetical fonts, the system comprising:
- (a) a storage device configured to store a set of phonemes wherein each phoneme of the set of phonemes is associated with a length that describes whether the phoneme is long or short;
- (b) a natural language processing function configured to identify phonemes within text;
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- (c) one or more processors;
- wherein the one or more processors are configured to:
- receive a set of digital text from the user device and select a target portion of digital text from the set of digital text, wherein the target portion of digital text comprises a letterform;
- (ii) determine a phoneme of the target portion of digital text using the natural language processing function;
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- (iii) cause the electronic device to display a morph of the letterform based upon the length associated with the phoneme of target portion of digital text, wherein the morph comprises:
- (A) increasing a display width of the letterform when the length of the phoneme is long;
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- (B) decreasing the display width of the letterform when the length of the phoneme is short.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.