Patents by Inventor Barbara Bernhardt

Barbara Bernhardt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Speech analysis and therapy system and method
    Patent number: 6732076
    Abstract: A system and method for analyzing a speech problem includes the steps of presenting to a student/user a symbol representative of a word and prompting the user to pronounce the word represented by the symbol into a microphone in signal communication with a processor. Next the therapist enters a phonetic representation of the user pronunciation into the processor. It is then automatically determined whether an error exists in the user pronunciation. If an error exists, the error is automatically categorized. The system and method may be adapted for presentation of a single word, a plurality of words having a predetermined feature desired to be tested, a pretest for screening for potential articulation disorders, and an analysis of connected speech with the use of a moving picture to elicit a narrative from the student.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Harcourt Assessment, Inc.
    Inventors: Julie Masterson, Barbara Bernhardt, Valarie Spiser-Albert
  • Speech analysis and therapy system and method
    Publication number: 20020099546
    Abstract: A system and method for analyzing a speech problem includes the steps of presenting to a student/user a symbol representative of a word and prompting the user to pronounce the word represented by the symbol into a microphone in signal communication with a processor. Next the therapist enters a phonetic representation of the user pronunciation into the processor. It is then automatically determined whether an error exists in the user pronunciation. If an error exists, the error is automatically categorized. The system and method may be adapted for presentation of a single word, a plurality of words having a predetermined feature desired to be tested, a pretest for screening for potential articulation disorders, and an analysis of connected speech with the use of a moving picture to elicit a narrative from the student.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Julie Masterson, Barbara Bernhardt, Valarie Spiser-Albert