Patent ID: 7233903

Claim:
A method of using speech for marking and subsequently identifying one or more items having electronically-readable identifiers respectively marked thereon, the method comprising the steps of: inputting at least a portion of the electronically-readable identifier marked on an item; inputting from a user a spoken utterance that corresponds to the item; converting the spoken utterance input by the user to text; associating the electronically-readable identifier input from the item with at least one of the spoken utterance input from the user and the corresponding text; and outputting the spoken utterance when the electronically-readable identifier associated with the spoken utterance is subsequently inputted; wherein the speech-to-text conversion is performed on a computing device remotely located with respect to a computing system performing the other steps, and further wherein the computing device that performs the speech-to-text conversion archives electronically-readable identifiers and associated text-converted spoken utterances on a removable storage medium such that an archived mapping is created over time between items having electronically-readable identifiers and text-converted spoken utterances that are representative of user descriptions of the items wherein the archived mapping is specific to the user and is removably-portable and represents items that the user may interact with at a future time or place, and further wherein the spoken utterance input by the user is transmitted to the remotely-located computing device prior to speech-to-text conversion.