Patent ID: 7302048
Filing Date: 2007-11-27
Classification: G06Q,G10L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A printer, comprising: a communication interface operable for receiving a remotely generated voice message over a communication line; a speech bank operable for storing speech patterns and vocabulary words; a speech recognizer that receives the remotely generated voice message and is coupled to the speech bank, the speech recognizer operable to compare the remotely generated voice message to the speech patterns and vocabulary words in the speech bank and translate the remotely generated voice message into text data; a print mechanism to print the text data; a central processing unit (CPU) operable to control the print mechanism to print the text data, whereby the remotely generated voice message has been transcribed into printed text data by the speech recognizer; and a correction device that accepts corrective input to correct the text data by correcting the operation of either the speech recognizer or the speech bank.