Automated Customization Engine for Real-Time Pronunciation Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current interactive reading technologies lack personalized and adaptive feedback mechanisms to correct pronunciation and reading errors in real-time, especially in educational settings, which can hinder effective learning.

Innovation Solution

A method utilizing machine learning algorithms to compare user-generated audio content with expected audio content, identifying deviations, and generating personalized feedback based on user attributes such as location, dialect, or accent, to provide immediate and comprehensible corrections.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If machine learning algorithms are used to compare audio content and generate personalized feedback, then feedback accuracy and personalization are improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefeedback accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces machine learning algorithms as intermediary components that mediate between the audio input and the feedback generation. These algorithms act as a bridge, processing the raw audio data and transforming it into personalized feedback based on user attributes, thereby achieving high accuracy without direct complex manual analysis

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters by incorporating user attributes such as location, dialect, and accent into the feedback generation process. By adjusting these parameters dynamically based on user profiles, the system achieves personalized and accurate feedback while managing complexity through automated parameter adaptation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If real-time audio comparison and personalized feedback generation are implemented, then learning effectiveness is improved, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelearning effectivenessVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing audio content and extracting features before the actual comparison. It also pre-loads user attribute data and models, so that when real-time feedback is needed, the heavy computational tasks have already been prepared in advance, reducing real-time processing requirements

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements continuous audio streaming and incremental processing, where the system maintains continuous comparison of audio content against expected patterns. This allows for real-time feedback without interrupting the learning process, ensuring that useful action continues without significant processing delays

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

3Manufacturing precision

If multiple machine learning algorithms are used for audio analysis and phoneme identification, then feedback precision is improved, but algorithm complexity and training requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefeedback precisionVSAvoidalgorithm complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the audio analysis process into distinct functional components: audio content extraction, phoneme identification, deviation detection, and feedback generation. Each segment can be handled by specialized algorithms, making the overall system more manageable and precise while reducing the complexity of any single algorithm

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs a multi-functional approach where machine learning algorithms serve multiple purposes: audio transcription, phoneme recognition, pronunciation comparison, and feedback generation. This universality reduces the need for separate specialized algorithms for each function, thereby managing complexity while maintaining precision

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20240282303A1Automated customization engine
Publication Date: 2024.08.22 JUST RIGHT READER INC
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AI summary

A system and method can be provided for automatically generating and outputting reader feedback. For example, the method can involve receiving audio content generated by a user and corresponding to textual content provided to the user. The method can further involve comparing the received audio content to expected audio content via a machine learning algorithm. Additionally, the method can involve determining, based on an output of the machine learning algorithm, that a portion of the received audio content deviates from a portion of the expected audio content by greater than a threshold value. The method can also involve generating speech corresponding to the portion of the expected audio content. The speech corresponding to the portion of the expected audio content can be generated based on one or more attributes of the user. The method can further involve outputting the generated speech to the user.