Systems and methods for automated audio transcription, translation, and transfer

• US 20020161579A1
• Filed: 08/14/2001
• Published: 10/31/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Courtroom Connect
• Original Assignee: Speche Communications, Inc.
• Inventors: Brand, Stephen, Saindon, Richard J.
• Granted Patent: US 7,035,804 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/40 Processing or translation of natural language natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

The present invention relates to systems and methods for audio processing. For example, the present invention provides systems and methods for receiving live speech, converting the speech to text, and transferring the text to a user. As desired, the speech or text can be translated into one or more different languages. Systems and methods for real-time conversion and transmission of speech and text are provided.

Claims

1. A system comprising a speech-to-text converter and a processor, said processor configured to receive text information from said speech to text converter and encode 10,000 or more text information streams.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said system simultaneously transmits 10,000 or more text information streams.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said system simultaneously transmits 100,000 or more text information streams.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said system simultaneously transmits 1,000,000 or more text information streams.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a caption server configured to receive text information from said speech-to-text converter and configured to transmit text information to said processor.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said caption server is configured to simultaneously receive text information from 200 or more speech-to-text converters.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said speech-to-text converter comprises a computer running captioning software.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein said computer comprises a software application that allows text information to be transmitted over an Internet without the use of a serial to IP device.

9. A system comprising:

a. a conference bridge configured to receive audio information;

b. a speech-to-text converter configured to receive audio information from said conference bridge and to convert at least a portion of said audio information into text information; and

c. a processor configured to receive said text information from said speech-to-text converter and to encode a text information stream.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein one or more of receipt of information by said conference bridge, transmission of information from said conference bridge to said speech-to-text converter, transmission of information from said speech-to-text converter to said processor, or transmission of text information streams from said processor is carried out by a wireless communication system.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein said processor is configured to simultaneously receive text information from 200 or more speech-to-text converters.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein said speech-to-text converter comprises a computer running captioning software.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein said computer comprises a software application that allows text information to be transmitted over an Internet to said processor without the use of a serial to IP device.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein said audio information comprises information obtained from live event audio, speech audio, and motion picture audio.

15. The system of claim 9, further comprising a text-to-speech converter configured to convert at least a portion of said text information to audio.

16. The system of claim 9, further comprising a language translator configured to receive said text information and convert said text information from a first language into one or more other languages.

17. The system of claim 9, wherein said processor is further configured to transmit said text information stream to a computer system of a viewer.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein said processor is further configured to transmit a text viewer software application to said viewer.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein said processor is further configured to receive feedback information from said viewer.

20. A computer system comprising a software application configured to receive text information encoded by a plurality of different captionist software encoding protocols, and configured to convert said text information encoded by a plurality of different captionist software encoding protocols into a standard text format.