Patent ID: 8731919
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A system for capturing voice files and rendering them searchable, comprising: (a) a database system having a plurality of grammars stored therein; (b) at least one device that electronically captures audio speech for a conversation between two or more participants; (c) a recorder coupled to said at least one device, the recorder capturing audio speech from the device for storage as audio speech data in said database system; and (d) a speech recognition engine adapted to wherein the speech recognition engine is adapted to select a grammar from said database system prior to performing a first transcription pass, the grammar for a first transcription pass selected on the basis of information pertaining to the subject matter or purpose of the conversation, and information pertaining to one or more of the participants, and further wherein the recognition engine is adapted to revise the machine-readable text data for the conversation by performing a subsequent transcription pass on the audio speech data using a grammar which was not used in the first transcription pass.