US Patent Issued to Carnegie Mellon University on Oct. 14 for "Interactive system using speech recognition and digital media" (Texas, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,415, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"Interactive system using speech recognition and digital media" was invented by Anthony Tomasic (Forth Worth, Texas), Erik Thiessen (Pittsburgh), Cassondra Eng (Pittsburgh) and Amy Ogan (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for interactive system using speech recognition and digital media is described. The system uses automated speech recognition and recognizes interactions from users to execute digital media items. The interactions are based on behavior of the user. The user is given a prompt. If the student responds to a prompt correctly,...