Patent ID: 7177800

Claim:
A method for the processing of speech information for the realisation of a speech based memory using at least one of means for input, means for storage, means for acoustical reproduction, means for transmission of speech and data information to other devices and means for searching for one or several speech segments in speech information stored in the means for storage, the method comprising the steps of: recording digitally at least one spoken voice memorandum as speech signals in the means for storage; transforming speech signals into at least one representation suitable for pattern matching; recording at least one search word spoken for search purposes; comparing the at least one recorded search word with the digital recordings of the at least one voice memorandum with the means for searching by way of pattern matching; determining a score between the speech patterns of the search word and the digital recordings of the at least one voice memorandum on a basis of their parameters; and sorting at least a part of the at least one voice memorandum according to the score.