Patent ID: 6581782
Filing Date: 2003-06-24
Classification: B07C,Y10S

Abstract:
A system for assisting an operator in manually sorting mail, comprising:a headset including a microphone which translates a verbal statement from the operator into speech signals and a wireless transmitter wirelessly transmits speech signals; and a computer workstation at a location remote, during operation, from the operator, said workstation including: (a) a receiver which receives the speech signals wirelessly transmitted from the wireless transmitter in the headset, (b) a speech recognition unit which recognizes addressee information corresponding to an item of mail from the speech signals, (c) a processor; (d) a control program which instructs the processor to search a database to locate at least one record matching the addressee information recognized by said speech recognition unit, and (e) an output unit which outputs to the operator destination information included in the at least one record matching the addressee information.