Method and device for language comprehension
OwnerFrancois Teytaudinventor
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Abstract
The invention concerns a method for source language comprehension designed for a listener mastering a target language, which consists in causing the listener to listen to a statement, consisting of a series of several contents, in the source language and in displaying simultaneously with the listening of the statement a succession of notations marking the succession of contents in the source language, showing a notation marking a content only as from the time when it is being heard and showing, a series of inscriptions in the target language which corresponds to the full statement. The method is characterized in that it consists in showing the whole series of inscriptions before the beginning of the statement.
Claims16
A method for enabling a source language to be understood by a listener mastering a target language, the method comprising:
- playing to the listener, in the source language, a statement comprising a succession of contents;
- and
- showing, simultaneously with playing the statement, a succession of notations marking the succession of contents in the source language, wherein a notation marking a particular content is only shown from the moment when it is made possible for it to be heard;
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- showing a sequence of inscriptions in the target language corresponding to the meaning of the entire statement, wherein the entire series of inscriptions is shown before the playing of the statement.
A display panel including a first line of notations subdivided into groups separated by first intervals, the first line being superposed on a second line of a series of words separated by second intervals, wherein the first character in each group is in line with the first character of a word, a first interval has a length different than that of another first interval, and a second interval has a length different than that of another second interval.
A device comprising:
- a statement emitting device configured to emit a statement composed of a succession of phonemes;
- a screen configured to display the succession of phonemes;
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- a display device configured to display a succession of notations on the screen and successively mark, respectively, the phonemes in the succession of phonemes, wherein the succession of notations are provided to the screen in the form of script signals;
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- a synchronizing device configured to synchronize the emitting device and the display device so as to display the notations on the screen only as the phonemes that they mark are emitted, wherein
- the display device comprises a device configured to place a series of inscriptions in the form of a series of electrical translation signals;
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- the electrical translation signals appear before the first one of the script signals.
A device for language comprehension by a user, comprising:
- means for audibly emitting a statement composed of a succession of phonemes;
- means for displaying the succession of phonemes and a succession of notations to the user, wherein the successive notations successively mark corresponding phonemes in the succession of phonemes;
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- means for synchronizing the means for emitting and the means for displaying such that the notations are displayed only as the corresponding phonemes are emitted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.