Microprocessor based English speech training system

Author

Goto, M. ; Takata, S. ; Uekawa, Y.

Author_Institution

Matsushita Electr. Ind. Co. Ltd., Osaka, Japan

Volume

34

Issue

3

fYear

1988

fDate

8/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

824

Lastpage

834

Abstract

This English speech training system analyzes a student´s pronunciation and shows the result in a graphic display. The system consists of an 8 bit personal computer (MSX or MSX2) with 3.5 in. floppy-disk drive and 64 kB RAM, an adaptor for the English speech training system, a headset, a textbook and model speech disk, and an RGB color monitor. The adaptor consists of a speech memory RAM, a basic program ROM, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, an interface, and a speech-signal amplifier. The signal processing is done by the Z80A central processing unit of the personal computer. The training includes vowel pronunciation training and rhythm intonation training in English.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; linguistics; microcomputer applications; speech recognition; speech synthesis; 3.5 in; 64 kByte; 8 bit; ADC; DAC; English speech training system; MSX; MSX2; RAM; RGB color monitor; Z80A; basic program ROM; graphic display; headset; interface; microprocessor based system; personal computer; pronunciation; rhythm intonation training; speech memory RAM; speech-signal amplifier; vowel pronunciation training; Computer displays; Computer graphics; Computerized monitoring; Drives; Microcomputers; Microprocessors; Random access memory; Read only memory; Read-write memory; Speech analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.20190

Filename

20190