Patent ID: 6973428

Claim:
A method for processing text transcripts of speech after imperfect speech recognition, the method comprising the steps of: converting a speech document to text; processing the text to determine salient terms; and displaying the text by emphasizing the salient terms and minimizing non-salient terms, wherein said salient terms are determined by: determining high selectivity terms in the at least one text transcript; determining how many high selectivity terms there are; determining how many multiword and high selectivity terms there are that are above a first predetermined selectivity; when there are ten or more high selectivity and multiword terms that have confidences greater than a first predetermined selectivity, displaying the ten or more high selectivity and multiword terms; and when there are less than ten high selectivity and multiword terms that are above a first predetermined selectivity: determining how many single word and high selectivity terms there are; determining if there are ten or more single word and multiword terms that are high selectivity terms that have selectivities greater than a first predetermined selectivity; when there are ten or more single word and multiword terms that are high selectivity terms that have selectivity greater than a first predetermined selectivity, displaying all of the ten or more single word and multiword terms; and when there are not ten or more single word and multiword terms that are high selectivity terms that have confidences greater than a first predetermined selectivity, displaying all single word and multiword terms that are high selectivity terms and that have confidences greater than a second predetermined selectivity.