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US 5,146,502 AGranted
Speech pattern correction device for deaf and voice-impaired
AssigneeDavis, Van Nortwick & Company
InventorStephen A. Davis
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Abstract
A portable voice or speech aid enabling a deaf or voice impaired user to make sounds into a microphone to output intelligible speech through a built-in speaker or to a text display screen.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a microphone used to receive unintelligible voice utterances from a deaf or voice-impaired person;
- a voice-word-profile containing representations of said voice unintelligible utterances and corresponding correct speech patterns;
- a sound recognition routine to match said unintelligible voice utterances to said correct speech patterns;
- and
- a speaker to output said correct speech patterns matched by said sound recognition routine,
- so that said apparatus corrects unintelligible speech patterns enabling a deaf or voice-impaired person to communicate in correct speech patterns by uttering otherwise unrecognizable speech pattern.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- means for receiving unrecognizable voice utterances intended as communicative speech from deaf or voice impaired persons and comparing said utterances to stored representations of said utterances, said stored representations being associated with correspondign words;
- means for identifying a match between one of said utterances and one of said stored representations of utterances, and outputting the word corresponding to the identified representation;
- and
- means for vocalizing said word corresponding to said identified representation so that said utterances of a deaf or voice-impaired person intended as communicative speech are output in a correct speech pattern to make them understandable.
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A method, comprising:
- storing a voice-word-profile containign representations of unintelligible voice utterances of a deaf or voice-impaired person and a correct speech pattern corresponding to each voice utterance;
- receiving voice utterances from said deaf or voice-impaired person;
- matching said voice utterances to said correct speech patterns;
- outputting said correct speech patterns to an output device where it is vocalized,
- so that utterances of a deaf or voice-impaired person intended as communicative speech are output in a correct speech pattern to make them understandable.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving unrecognizable voice utterances intended as communicative speech from a deaf or voice impaired person and comparing said utterances to stored representations of utterances, said stored representations being associated with corresponding words;
- identifying a match between one of said utterances and oen of said stored representations of utterances, and outputting the word corresponding to the identified representation;
- and
- vocalizing said word corresponding to said identified representation so that said utterances of a deaf or voice-imparied person intended as communicative speech are output in a correct speech pattern to make them understandable.
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