Patent Document ID: 6122614
Application ID: 09197313

Base Claim:
1. A system for substantially automating transcription services for one or more voice users, said system comprising: means for receiving a voice dictation file from a current user, said current user being one of said one or more voice users; an audio player used to audibly reproduce said voice dictation file; means for manually inputting and creating a transcribed file based on humanly perceived contents of said voice dictation file; means for automatically converting said voice dictation file into written text; means for manually editing a copy of said written text to create a verbatim text of said voice dictation file; means for training said automatic speech converting means to achieve higher accuracy with said voice dictation file of current user; and means for controlling the flow of said voice dictation file based upon a training status of said current user, whereby said controlling means sends said voice dictation file to at least one of said manual input means and said automatic speech converting means.

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Claim 2:
2. The invention according to claim 1 wherein said written text is at least temporarily synchronized to said voice dictation file, said manual editing means comprises: means for sequentially comparing a copy of said written text with said transcribed file resulting in a sequential list of unmatched words culled from said copy of said 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 the speech recognition program containing said 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 written text and means for playing a portion of said synchronized voice dictation recording from said first buffer associated with said current unmatched word.