>>I am gonna step way out of my mathematical depth here >> > > I mean no disrespect, but this is the last accurate statement you made. >
You are probably correct, I am certainly out of my field and hope that noone would embark on a hopeless project based on my few words. However, the school district (and some teachers) tell me that Rosetta Stone does this quite well (phrasal pronunciation scoring). I've heard there are other packages that do as well This tells me the math has been done. But you are correct that he would not want to attempt the math himself, I just think it can probably be found somewhere and MatLab users might be a good starting point. Personally, I have done from scratch lots of things which were done before and sometimes better. Anyway, it is a truly fascinating subject. The true test of whether you are learning a language is whether native speakers can understand you well, not some computer graded pronunciation test. The pattern fitting capabilities of the auditory regions of the neo-cortex and limbic regions are so awesome we may be decades away from automating them. Emulating hundreds of thousands of synaptic connections and meta-language itself is gonna take a lot of work. I will defend one statement though. I have yet to see anything which Python would not make a good wrapper for. Some of the OpenGL pygame stuff is very cool. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list