Patent Document ID: 8924216
Application ID: 14038912

Base Claim:
1. A method for synchronizing an audio medical dictation and a manual transcription of the audio medical dictation, the method comprising: establishing a repetition frequency at which to query playback of the audio medical dictation; while the audio medical dictation is being played back and manually transcribed, repeatedly obtaining, at the established repetition frequency, a current time position of a corresponding currently played sound datum in the audio medical dictation, and a currently transcribed text datum in the manual transcription at the current time position; generating, via a computer executing stored program instructions, a corrected time position for the currently transcribed text datum by applying to the current time position a time correction value in accordance with a transcription delay; and generating at least one association datum indicative of a synchronization association between the corrected time position and the currently transcribed text datum.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: in response to identifying a pause in the audio medical dictation that corresponds to punctuation in the manual transcription, generating an additional association datum.