Patent ID: 8706495

Claim:
A correction device for assisting in editing text information recognized from speech information by a speech recognition device, the correction device comprising: editing means for providing a text cursor for display, the text cursor indicating a position in the text information where at least one edit will be performed upon receiving editing information entered by a user; audio playback means to provide an audio cursor for display during acoustic playback of the speech information, the audio cursor highlighting portions of the text information synchronous with the playback of the speech information such that, when displayed to the user, the audio cursor highlights the portions of the text information as the associated portions of the speech information are being acoustically played back; and cursor synchronization means for synchronizing the text cursor and the audio cursor, wherein synchronizing comprises automatically synchronizing the text cursor and the audio cursor, wherein the cursor synchronization means automatically positions the text cursor at a predetermined position relative to a location of the audio cursor and automatically moves the location of the text cursor synchronous with the movement of the audio cursor during acoustic playback until the user indicates an intent to perform an editing operation.