Methods and system for capturing voice files and rendering them searchable by keyword or phrase

• US 20090099845A1
• Filed: 10/16/2008
• Published: 04/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Astute, Inc. (Astute Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Astute Innovations, Inc.
• Inventors: George, Alex Kiran
• Granted Patent: US 8,731,919 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/183 using context dependencies, e.g. language models
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/19 Grammatical context, e.g. disambiguation of the recognition hypotheses based on word sequence rules
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

A system for capturing voice files and rendering them searchable, comprising one or more devices capable of capturing audio speech electronically, a recorder coupled to the devices for retrieving audio speech, a controller coupled to the recorder, a recognition engine adapted to transcribe audio speech into text, and a database system is disclosed. In the system, the controller causes the recorder to capture audio speech from at least one of the devices, the recorder stores the audio speech as data in the database system, and the recognition engine subsequently retrieves the audio speech data, transcribes the audio speech data into text, and stores the text and data associating the text data with at least the audio speech data in the database system for subsequent retrieval by a search application.

Claims

1. A system for capturing voice files and rendering them searchable, comprising:

one or more devices capable of capturing audio speech electronically;

a recorder coupled to the devices for retrieving audio speech;

a recognition engine adapted to transcribe audio speech into text; and

a database system;

wherein the recorder captures audio speech from at least one of the devices and stores the audio speech as data in the database system, and the recognition engine subsequently retrieves the audio speech data, transcribes the audio speech data into text, and stores the text and data associating the text data with at least the audio speech data in the database system for subsequent retrieval by a search application.

2. A system for capturing voice files and rendering them searchable, comprising:

one or more devices capable of capturing audio speech electronically;

a recorder coupled to the devices for retrieving audio speech;

a controller coupled to the recorder;

a recognition engine adapted to transcribe audio speech into text; and

a database system;

wherein the controller causes the recorder to capture audio speech from at least one of the devices, and the recorder stores the audio speech as data in the database system, and the recognition engine subsequently retrieves the audio speech data, transcribes the audio speech data into text, and stores the text and data associating the text data with at least the audio speech data in the database system for subsequent retrieval by a search application.

3. A method for capturing voice files and rendering them searchable, comprising the steps of:

recording audio speech data from at least one audio-capable device;

storing the audio speech data in a database;

retrieving the audio speech data and transcribing it into text using a recognition engine;

creating at least one data element associating the text with the audio speech data; and

storing the text and the associated data elements in a database for future access by a search application.