Method to develop pronunciation and intonation proficiency of english and apparatus using the same

• US 10,777,095 B1
• Filed: 06/10/2020
• Issued: 09/15/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2019
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Il Sung Bang
• Original Assignee: Il Sung Bang
• Inventors: Bang, Il Sung
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Linda
• Application Number:
  US16/898,092
• Time in Patent Office: 97 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/04 Speaking with audible presentation of the material to be studied G09B5/04
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/06 Foreign languages with audible presentation of material to be studied G09B5/04
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/04 with audible presentation of the material to be studied sound recording or reproducing G11B
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/062 Combinations of audio and printed presentations, e.g. magnetically striped cards, talking books, magnetic tapes with printed texts thereon
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/065 Combinations of audio and video presentations, e.g. videotapes, videodiscs, television systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/08 Text analysis or generation of parameters for speech synthesis out of text, e.g. grapheme to phoneme translation, prosody generation or stress or intonation determination
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/183 using context dependencies, e.g. language models
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/055 for synchronising with other signals, e.g. video signals

Abstract

A method to develop pronunciation and intonation proficiency of English using an electronic interface, includes: preparing video bites each having an English language sound clip; preparing a script of the sound clip, wherein the script is partially marked in accordance with a predetermined rule of a pronunciation and intonation rhythm; displaying a circle on a screen of the electronic interface, wherein the circle has an illuminant movably provided along the circle, wherein the circle is serially partitioned to first to fourth quadrants; selectively playing on the screen the sound clip and the script adjacent to the circle; and synchronizing the sound clip to the illuminant in accordance with the predetermined rule, wherein an angular velocity of the illuminant moving along the circle accelerates and decelerates in the first quadrant and substantially remains constant in the second and third quadrants.

Claims

1. A method to develop pronunciation and intonation proficiency of English using an electronic interface, comprising:

preparing video bites each having an English language sound clip;

preparing a script of the sound clip, wherein the script is partially marked in accordance with a predetermined rule of a pronunciation and intonation rhythm;

displaying a circle on a screen of the electronic interface, wherein the circle has an illuminant movably provided along the circle, wherein the circle is serially partitioned to first to fourth quadrants;

selectively playing on the screen the sound clip and the script adjacent to the circle; and

synchronizing the sound clip to the illuminant in accordance with the predetermined rule, wherein an angular velocity of the illuminant moving along the circle accelerates and decelerates in the first quadrant and substantially remains constant in the second and third quadrants.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

controlling the screen to selectively pop up onto the screen the video bites and the script.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the partial marking of the script is realized in a moving marquee format.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic interface is a hand-held device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the illuminant is an illuminating dot tethered to a bucket image.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the illuminant is formed variable in color and image depending on a language format of the sound clip, wherein the language format is one selected from a sentence, a phrase, a word, and a syllable.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the angular velocity of the illuminant is controllable by a user of the electronic interface.

8. A method to develop pronunciation and intonation proficiency of English using an electronic interface, comprising:

preparing video bites each having an English language sound clip;

preparing a script of the sound clip, wherein the script is partially marked in accordance with a predetermined rule of a pronunciation and intonation rhythm;

displaying a circle on a screen of the electronic interface, wherein the circle has an illuminant movably provided along the circle, wherein the circle is serially partitioned to first to fourth quadrants;

selectively playing on the screen the sound clip and the script adjacent to the circle; and

synchronizing the sound clip to the illuminant in accordance with the predetermined rule, wherein an angular velocity of the illuminant moving along the circle accelerates and decelerates in the first quadrant and substantially remains constant in the second and third quadrants, wherein the angular velocity minimally decelerates in the fourth quadrant.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

controlling the screen to selectively pop up onto the screen the video bites and the script.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the partial marking of the script is realized in a moving marquee format.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the electronic interface is a hand-held device.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the illuminant is an illuminating dot tethered to a bucket image.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the illuminant is formed variable in color and image depending on a language format of the sound clip, wherein the language format is one selected from a sentence, a phrase, a word, and a syllable.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the angular velocity of the illuminant is controllable by a user of the electronic interface.

15. An electronic interface to develop pronunciation and intonation proficiency of English, comprising:

a display unit to display on a screen of the electronic interface a circle, a video bite having an English language sound clip, and a script of the sound clip, wherein the circle has an illuminant movably provided along the circle, wherein the circle is serially partitioned to first to fourth quadrants, wherein the script is partially marked in accordance with a predetermined rule of a pronunciation and intonation rhythm; and

a synch unit to synchronize the sound clip to the illuminant in accordance with the predetermined rule, wherein an angular velocity of the illuminant moving along the circle accelerates and decelerates in the first quadrant and substantially remains constant in the second and third quadrants, wherein the angular velocity minimally decelerates in the fourth quadrant.

16. The electronic interface of claim 15, further comprising:

a screen control to selectively pop up onto the screen the video bites and the script.

17. The electronic interface of claim 15, wherein the electronic interface is a hand-held device.

18. The electronic interface of claim 15, wherein the illuminant is an illuminating dot tethered to a bucket image.

19. The electronic interface of claim 15, wherein the illuminant is formed variable in color and image depending on a language format of the sound clip, wherein the language format is one selected from a sentence, a phrase, a word, and a syllable.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the angular velocity of the illuminant is controllable by a user of the electronic interface.