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Method and device for enhancing the recognition of speech among speech-impaired individuals

  • US 6,302,697 B1
  • Filed: 08/20/1999
  • Issued: 10/16/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/08/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a computer system having an input device, and a sound generator, a method for training a user in more than one session to discriminate between two sound stimuli, the method comprising:

  • providing to the user, by the sound generator, a series of presentations of the two sound stimuli, the two sound stimuli separated from each other by an inter-stimulus interval (ISI);

    receiving by the input device, as the series of presentations is provided, user inputs, wherein each of the user inputs is responsive to a presentation in the series, and wherein each of the user inputs indicates the user'"'"'s ability to discriminate between the two sound stimuli; and

    decreasing, by the computer system, the ISI between the two sound stimuli in the presentations as the user correctly discriminates between the two sound stimuli.

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