Patent ID: 7296218

Claim:
A live-presentation utterance-capture system comprising: a microphone accessible to a speaker at a live presentation; a voice-recognition mechanism configured linguistically to interpret a vocal utterance received at the microphone from the speaker; a database mechanism operatively coupled with the voice-recognition mechanism, the database mechanism configured to store the linguistic interpretation of the vocal utterance in a visual form; a mixer configured to alter a visual representation of a prepared slide by including within the slide a visual representation of the vocal utterance, the mixer operating to overlay one of the visual representation of the prepared slide and the visual representation of the vocal utterance with the other; a presentation mechanism configured to present to an audience at the live presentation the visual representation of the vocal utterance stored in the visual form; a prepared slide storage mechanism coupled with the presentation mechanism, the storage mechanism and the presentation mechanism being collectively configured concurrently to present to the audience at the live presentation a visual representation of the prepared slide and the visual representation of the vocal utterance; a memory configured to store one or more of plural instances of such images; an image sequencer configured to sequentially present plural images in succession, at least one of the plural images being the output of the mixer and including the combined visual representation of the prepared slide and the visual representation of the vocal utterance; a website interface mechanism configured to provide access to the plural images by remote users over the world-wide web; and an edit panel configured to enable corrections by the speaker of any misinterpretations made by the voice recognition mechanism and configured to enable altering at least one text characteristic selected from among spelling, grammar, font type, size, color, boldface, underscore, and italics.