Patent ID: 8150689
Filing Date: 2012-04-03
Classification: G10L,H04L

Abstract:
1. A dictation manager having a network connection to at least one client station and at least one dictation server, comprising: at least one network data port to receive audio signals from a client station, to transmit the received audio signals to a dictation server, to receive textual data from the dictation server where the textual data comprises data from the audio signal transformed into textual data by the dictation server, and to transmit textual data to the at least one client station; a dictation server selector to select one of the at, least one dictation servers from which the dictation manager transrhits the received audio signal and receives the textual data; at least one memory containing a user profile, an indication of whether the user profile has been uploaded to and maintained by any of the at least one dictation server, an indication of which of the at least one dictation server to which the user profile has been uploaded, and a buffer to cache the received audio signal; wherein if the dictation server selector determines that the user profile has, been uploaded previously and prior to transmitting the received audio to one of the at least one dictation servers, the dictation server selector selects as the one of the at least one dictation server a dictation server to which the user profile has already been uploaded; wherein if the dictation server selector determines that the user profile has not been uploaded, the dictation server selector selects any one of the at least one dictation server and uploads the user profile; and wherein the dictation manager stores the received audio signal in the buffer and transmits the audio signal from the buffer once the dictation server is selected by the dictation server selector, such that the textual data is transmitted to the at least one client station in at least one of real-time or near real-time.