Patent ID: 7562288

Claim:
A voice-to-text document annotation system, comprising: a data-storage means; a microphone operatively coupled with the data-storage means; a voice-to-text conversion means embodied as computer-executable code and operatively coupled with the microphone and with the data-storage means, and configured to convert a spoken vocal input to a data-encoded text string; a computer-operable slide-show sequencing means operatively coupled with the data-storage means; a data-mixing means operatively coupled with the data-storage means, with the computer-operable slide-show sequencing means, and with the voice-to-text conversion means, and configured to enable a user to selectively annotate a prepared slide-show image retrieved from the storage means and sequenced by the slide-show sequencing means, by placing at a user-selected position within the slide-show image a text string produced by the voice-to-text conversion means from a spoken vocal input received at the microphone; an annotation control means operable by a user and operatively coupled with the data-mixing means, the annotation control means configured with user-selectable controls to affect at least one of the actions selected from the group consisting of initiating text string placement by the data-mixing means, terminating text string placement by the data-mixing means, specifying a placement position of the text string relative to the slide-show image, and altering a text characteristic of at least a portion of the text string; and a visual presentation means operatively coupled with either or both of the data-storage means and the data-mixing means and configured to display the image to a live audience concurrently with the placement of the text string within the image.