Patent ID: 7292975

Claim:
A method for determining a speaker's suitability for automated speech recognition in a transcription system comprising the steps of: accumulating a predetermined number of the speaker's voice files and associated text files, wherein the associated text files are transcription of the voice files transcribed by a transcriptionist; generating a recognized text file from said voice file using a speech recognition engine; determining a score based on the recognized text file generated from the voice file and the associated text file of the voice file, wherein the score is based on the edit distance between the associated text file and the recognized text file, and on the results of the transcription automatically measured during transcription by a transcriptionist selected from one of (a) the time it takes the transcriptionist to edit a recognized text file into conformity with a finished document or (b) the number of keystrokes it takes the transcriptionist to edit a recognized text file to bring it into conformity with a finished text file; determining a preferred mode of transcription based on a predetermined number of scores, wherein the predetermined number of scores are scores generated from recognized text files and associated text files corresponding to voice files generated by the speaker; and setting a transcription mode for the speaker, wherein the transcription mode indicates the method of transcription thereafter used in the transcription system.