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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Intechnica Granted U.S. Patent for Multimedia Voice Interactive Computer System Oklahoma City, OK – Intechnica International, Inc. announces that the U.S. Patent and Trademark office has granted the company a pioneering utility patent (U.S. Patent # 5,191,617) for the process of producing measurable results in the second language acquisition using a voice interactive computer system. The patent notes that while the system has been described in particular for a language-teaching situation, it is easily adaptable for other voice-interactive usages. The voice-interactive computer system is marketed as the Intechnica Language Literacy System™, an integrated hardware, software and curriculum application designed to improve the acquisition of communication skills—read, listen, write and speak—for learners of English as a Second Language and other languages. The Intechnica Language Literacy System uses IBM PC compatible microcomputers, a proprietary VoxCard™ sound digitizer and the VoxBox™ CD-ROM Client Server. P. Stanley Bolin, President, said “the important contribution of our invention to the field of learning is that it allows the student to control the learning path through the program and links the four elements of communication—reading(visual), listening(auditory), writing(tactile) and speaking(oral)—through the patented process. When well-designed teaching content is delivered by the Intechnica patented process, controlled field tests have shown that students ‘learn twice as much in a third less time’.* While the computer cannot replicate the way the human brain processes information or substitute for a one-on-one teaching lesson between a master teacher and a learner, our invention goes a long way toward allowing a student to acquire new proficiencies according to his or her own individual learning style and pace. In the present application, the system’s ‘sound mirror’(which allows the student to record his or her own voice), when combined with the visual imagery and text, provides a mutisensory learning environment that is closer to natural language acquisition than other methodologies. There is a growing awareness in the linguistics field that pattern recognition and modeling such as used in the patented process may be more effective in language acquisition than rule-based methodologies.” For More Information Contact: |
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