Patent ID: 8560327

Claim:
A method for synchronizing recorded sound data (SD) and text data (TD), said text data (TD) being obtained by manual transcription of said recorded sound data (SD) during playback of the latter, the method comprising: repeatedly and substantially continuously during said playback performing the steps of: querying, via a computer executing stored program instructions, said recorded, played back sound data (SD) and said text data (TD) to obtain at a current time position (TPi) a corresponding currently played sound datum (SDi) and a currently transcribed text datum (TDj), generating, via a computer executing stored program instructions, for the TDj, a corrected time position (TPi′) by applying a time correction value (L) in accordance with a transcription delay to the current time position (TPi), generating via a computer executing stored program instructions at least one association datum (<TPi′>) indicative of a synchronization association between said corrected time position (TPi′) and said currently transcribed text datum (TDj), and in response to identifying a pause in said sound data (SD) that corresponds to punctuation in said text data (TD), generating an additional association datum (<TPX′>).