Patent ID: 6961895
Filing Date: 2005-11-01
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
1. A method for synchronizing audio data to text data from a source, the method comprising: segregating a source text data of a given format into a plurality of text sections; delimiting each of the segregated text sections with a user interactive synchronization point; providing a user interactive mark button associated with each segregated text section; displaying at least one of the text sections, the delimiting synchronization point, and the associated mark button on a display; associating the synchronization point with a time stamp upon a user's first activation of the mark button; recording, in any order, audio data portions each corresponding to a text section; producing a timestamp data file entry upon a user's subsequent activation of the mark button at the completion of the recording step; converting each recorded audio portion into an audio data file; assembling the audio data files in a sequence corresponding to the given format of the source text data; and generating for said assembled data files a playback control file indicating points of navigation of the source text data.