Patent Document ID: 4430726
Application ID: 06274771

Base Claim:
1. A method of operating a dictation transcribing system characterized by the steps of: a. receiving voice dictation signals representing one or more spoken words from a dictation terminal, b. segmenting said dictation signals into time sequential voice dictation segments each consisting of one or more words, c. checking and storing in a done time table entries identifying the time when each transcriber terminal was available to receive transcribing, d. assigning and transmitting each sequential voice dictation segment to one of a plurality of transcriber terminals by selecting a transcriber terminal having the earliest time entry in said done time table, e. transcribing voice dictation segments into transcription signals at the assigned transcriber terminal and f. assembling the transcription signals from the transcriber terminals according to the segment assignments.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said segmenting step (b) includes the step of: generating from the characteristics of said dictation signal a signal for segmenting the received voice dictation signals.