Patent ID: 7236932

Claim:
An apparatus for improving productivity of human review of an automatically transcribed document generated by a speech-to-text conversion system, wherein the document is generated from an audio recording recorded by an author, the apparatus comprising: a. a controller coupled to the speech-to-text conversion system for selecting an appropriate one of a plurality of human reviewers to review the document wherein, the controller is capable of extracting an attribute from the document representative of a content of the document and further wherein the controller stores a plurality of reviewer profiles corresponding to each one of the human reviewers and provides the selected reviewer in response to the attribute; b. a transmission device coupled to the controller for transmitting the document and the audio recording to the selected reviewer; c. means for analyzing the transcription to associate portions of the transcription with a plurality of confidence levels of transcription accuracy, wherein each portion is marked according to one of the plurality of confidence levels; d. means for selecting one of the portions of the document in response to a command from the reviewer; and e. means for playing a portion of the voice recording corresponding to a selected portion of the transcription.