Patent Document ID: 8572488
Application ID: 12748695

Base Claim:
1. In a computer-based system, a method of conforming a script or transcript comprising words and phrases corresponding to a time-based media program that includes recorded speech, the method comprising: receiving the script or transcript; receiving timing information comprising, for each of a plurality of words or phrases within the script or transcript, a temporal location within the time-based media program where that word or phrase has been matched with a corresponding spoken word or phrase recognized in the recorded speech, and a confidence level for a match of the word or phrase from the selected portion of the script or transcript to the word or phrase recognized in the recorded speech; displaying a selected portion of the script or transcript; using the timing information, displaying, along with the word or phrases of the displayed selected portion of the script or transcript to which the confidence level corresponds, a graphical representation of the confidence levels for the matches of the words or phrases from the displayed selected portion of the script or transcript to the corresponding words or phrases recognized in the recorded speech from the temporal location within the time-based media program according to the received timing information, wherein at least one of the words or phrases within the selected portion has a confidence level equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold confidence level indicating that said at least one of the words or phrases in the selected portion do not match the words or phrases recognized in the recorded speech; retrieving a portion of the time-based media program corresponding to the temporal location associated with the selected portion of the script or transcript; playing back the retrieved portion of the time-based media program, while the selected portion of the script or transcript and graphical representation of the corresponding confidence levels are displayed, to enable a user to compare the retrieved portion of the time-based media program and the selected portion of the script or transcript; and in response to input received from the user, making corrections as indicated by the user to the text of the selected portion of the script or transcript so as to have the corrected text match the words or phrases in the recorded speech, such corrections being made while text from the selected portion of the script or transcript and corresponding graphical representations of the confidence levels are displayed and the corresponding portion of the time-based media is played back.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the time-based media includes a video component synchronized with the recorded speech.