CORRECTING TRANSCRIBED AUDIO FILES WITH AN EMAIL-CLIENT INTERFACE

• US 20110022387A1
• Filed: 12/04/2008
• Published: 01/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 1, LLC
• Original Assignee: III Holdings 1, LLC
• Inventors: Hager, Paul M.
• Application Number:
  US12/746,352
• Publication Number:
  US 20110022387A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

Methods and systems for requesting a transcription of audio data. One method includes displaying a send-for-transcription button within an email-client interface on a computer-controlled display, and automatically sending a selected email message and associated audio data to a transcription server as a request for a transcription of the associated audio data when a user selects the send-for-transcription button.

Claims

1. A method of requesting a transcription of audio data, the method comprising:

displaying a send-for-transcription button within an email-client interface on a computer-controlled display; and

automatically sending a selected email message and associated audio data to a transcription server as a request for a transcription of the associated audio data when a user selects the send-for-transcription button.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a status of the selected email message within the email-client interface, wherein the status indicates at least one of whether the selected email message has been sent to the transcription server, whether transcribed text based on the associated audio data has been received, and whether corrected text data has been received associated with the transcribed text.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising playing the associated audio data within the email-client interface so that the audio data is audible to a user.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the transcription of the associated audio data from the transcription server.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising displaying the transcription of the associated audio data to a user within the email-client interface.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising receiving corrected text data associated with the transcription of the associated audio data from a user within the email-client interface.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising sending the corrected text data to the transcription server.

8. A system for requesting a transcription of audio data, the system comprising:

a transcription server;

an email-client interface displaying at least one email message associated with audio data to a user, displaying a send-for-transcription button to the user, receiving a selection of the at least one email message from the user, receiving a selection of the send-for-transcription button from the user, and automatically sending the at least one email message and associated audio data to the transcription server as a request for a transcription of the associated audio data in response to the user'"'"'s selection of the send-for-transcription button.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the email-client interface displays a status associated with the at least one email message, wherein the status includes at least one of whether the at least one email message has been sent to the transcription server, whether transcribed text based on the associated audio data has been received, and whether corrected text data has been received associated with the transcribed text.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the email-client interface plays the associated audio data so that the associated audio data is audible to a user.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the transcription server generates the transcription of the associated audio data based on a voice independent model.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the transcription server identifies an account associated with the at least one email message based on at least one of an email address and an internet protocol address associated with the at least one email message.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the transcription server obtains stored account settings associated with the identified account, the account settings including at least one of transcribed text delivery settings, transcription settings, and transcription format settings.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the transcription server generates the transcription of the associated audio data based on the account settings.

15. The system of claim 8, wherein the transcription server generates the transcription of the associated audio data and sends the transcription of the associated audio data to the email-client interface.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the email-client interface displays the transcription of the associated audio data to a user, receives corrected text data associated with the transcription of the associated audio data from the user, and sends the corrected text data to the transcription server.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the transcription server modifies a voice-independent model based on the corrected text data.

18. A system for generating a transcription of audio data, the system comprising:

a transcription server configured to receive at least one email message and associated audio data from an email-client, identify an account based on the at least one email message, and obtain stored account settings associated with the identified account; and

a translation server configured to generate a transcription of the associated audio data based on the account settings and a voice-independent model.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the account settings include at least one of transcribed text delivery settings, transcription settings, and transcription format settings.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the transcription server identifies an account based on at least one of an email address and an internet protocol address associated with the at least one email message.