Patent ID: 7027984
Filing Date: 2006-04-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A dictation system comprising: dictation software for receiving a stream of voice information and responsive thereto for generating text corresponding to the voice information; and a tone-based mark-up facility for receiving at least one tone and automatically converting each tone into one or more mark-up commands that operate on the text; wherein the tone-based mark-up facility includes a tone symbol document generator for receiving a digital stream having at least one tone and responsive thereto for generating a tone symbol document having a plurality of words and a tone symbol corresponding to each and the tone-based mark-up facility also includes a mark-up document generator coupled to the tone symbol document generator for receiving the tone symbol document and responsive thereto for automatically generating a marked-up document that has at least one mark-up command that corresponds to the tone symbol; wherein the mark-up document generator receives context information and selectively converts each tone symbol into one or more mark-up commands based on the context information.