Automatic reading system and methods
AssigneeOrdinate Corporation
InventorBrent Townshend
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Abstract
An automatic reading system provides a system and methods of evaluating a user's reading skills while the user is reading out loud. The automatic reading system adjusts text of an electronic book as the user is reading to increase or decrease a level profile of the electronic book. The automatic reading system also provides reading recommendations, feedback, and marketing data.
Claims51
The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or right is claimed are defined as follows:
An automatic reading system, comprising in combination:
- a means for detecting speech of a user who is reading out loud;
- a means for evaluating the user's reading skill;
- and
- a means for making reading recommendations.
An automatic reading system, comprising in combination:
- a speech recognition system operable to provide an estimate of speech;
- an evaluation device operable to convert the estimate of speech into an item score;
- and
- a recommendation device operable to use the item score to provide a reading recommendation.
An automatic reading system, comprising in combination:
- a speech recognition system operable to provide an estimate of linguistic content of speech, and wherein the estimate is a sequence of words in a machine recognizable format;
- an evaluation device operable to convert the estimate of the linguistic content of speech into an item score, wherein the item score is calculated using Item Response Theory, and wherein the item score is a number of differences between speech and a correct response;
- and
- a recommendation device operable to use the item score to provide a reading recommendation, wherein the recommendation device accesses a book database containing several versions of a book, and wherein the recommendation device accesses a user database.
A method of providing an automatic reading system, comprising in combination:
- reading text into a speech detector;
- estimating linguistic content of speech;
- converting an estimate into an item score;
- and
- providing a reading recommendation.
An automatic reading system, comprising in combination:
- a client device including a display and a speech detector;
- and
- a server device operable to detect speech from a user reading from a book,
- wherein the sever device evaluates the speech, and wherein the server device provides reading recommendations to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.