US Patent 10431203 Machine training for native language and fluency identification

Training a machine by a machine learning technique for recognizing speech utterance to determine language fluency level of a user. Native speaker recorded data and language specific dictionary of heteronyms may be retrieved. The native speaker recorded data may be parsed and the heteronyms from the native speaker recorded data may be isolated. Linguistic features from the native speaker recorded data including at least linguistic features associated with the heteronyms may be extracted, and a language dependent machine learning model is generated based on the linguistic features.