Patent Document ID: 6151576
Application ID: 09132875

Base Claim:
1. A method of processing an original data stream of digitized speech samples, comprising: converting a stream of digitized speech samples to a stream of text and associated reliability measures, the reliability measures indicating a level of confidence in the correctness of the speech to text conversion of the associated portions of the stream of text; and creating a mixed-media data stream comprising the stream of text as a text component and selected portions of the digitized stream of speech as a speech component, each selected portion corresponding to a portion of the stream of text having a reliability measure below a threshold.

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Claim 12:
12. The method of claim 1, wherein: the original data stream of digitized speech samples is received in a computer; the digitized speech samples are provided as input to speech recognition engine, the speech recognition engine being a computer program running in the computer, to convert speech to text and produce reliability measures; and the mixed-media data stream is created by a second computer program receiving as inputs the digitized speech samples, the text produced by the speech recognition engine, and the reliability measures produced by the speech recognition engine.