Patent ID: 6961699

Claim:
A system for substantially automating transcription services for one or more voice users, comprising means for receiving a voice dictation file from a current user, said current user being one of said one or more voice users; first means for automatically converting said voice dictation file into a first written text, said first automatic conversion means having a first set of conversion variables; second means for automatically converting said voice dictation file into a second written text, said second automatic converting means having a second set of conversion variables, said first and second sets of conversion variables having at least one difference; and means for manually editing a copy of said first and second written texts to create a verbatim text of said voice dictation file; wherein said first written text is at least temporarily synchronized to said voice dictation file, and said manual editing means comprises: means for sequentially comparing a copy of said first written text with said second written text resulting in a sequential list of unmatched words culled from said copy of said first written text, said sequential list having a beginning, an end and a current unmatched word, said current unmatched word being successively advanced from said beginning to said end; means for incrementally searching for said current unmatched word contemporaneously within a first buffer associated with said first automatic conversion means containing said first written text and a second buffer associated with said sequential list; and means for correcting said current unmatched word in said second buffer, said correcting means including means for displaying said current unmatched word in a manner substantially visually isolated from other text in said copy of said first written text and means for playing a portion of said synchronized voice dictation recording from said first buffer associated with said current unmatched word.