REAL-TIME TRANSCRIPTION OF CONFERENCE CALLS
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1. A system for transcribing a conference call among a plurality of participants using a plurality of audio connections;
- the system comprising;
(a) a plurality of capture mechanisms, each of the plurality of capture mechanisms capturing a portion of audio associated with one of the plurality of audio connections;
(b) a plurality of speech recognition engines for converting audio to text(c) a dispatcher for forwarding a captured portion of audio from one of the plurality of capture mechanisms to at least one of the plurality of speech recognition engines; and
(c) a combiner for re-assembling the text converted by the plurality of speech recognition engines from captured portions of audio from the plurality of capture mechanisms.
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Abstract
Described herein are embodiments of systems, methods and computer program products for real-time transcription of conference calls that employ voice activity detection, audio snippet capture, and multiple transcription instances to deliver practical real-time or near real-time conference call transcription.
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1. A system for transcribing a conference call among a plurality of participants using a plurality of audio connections;
- the system comprising;
(a) a plurality of capture mechanisms, each of the plurality of capture mechanisms capturing a portion of audio associated with one of the plurality of audio connections; (b) a plurality of speech recognition engines for converting audio to text (c) a dispatcher for forwarding a captured portion of audio from one of the plurality of capture mechanisms to at least one of the plurality of speech recognition engines; and (c) a combiner for re-assembling the text converted by the plurality of speech recognition engines from captured portions of audio from the plurality of capture mechanisms. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
- the system comprising;
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13. A method for transcribing a conference call among a plurality of participants using a plurality of audio connections;
- the method comprising the steps of;
(a) capturing a plurality of portions of audio, each of the plurality of portions of audio being associated with at least one of the plurality of audio connections; (b) forwarding each of the captured plurality of portions of audio to at least one of a plurality of speech recognition engines, whereby each of the plurality of speech recognition engines converts the audio to text; and (c) re-assembling the text converted by the plurality of speech recognition engines. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
- the method comprising the steps of;
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22. A computer-readable medium with a computer program recorded thereon, the computer program comprising computer code instructions for implementing a method for transcribing a conference call among a plurality of participants using a plurality of audio connections;
- the computer-readable medium comprising;
(a) a first computer code instruction portion for capturing a plurality of portions of audio, each of the plurality of portions of audio being associated with at least one of the plurality of audio connections; (b) a second computer code instruction portion for forwarding each of the captured plurality of portions of audio to at least one of a plurality of speech recognition engines, whereby each of the plurality of speech recognition engines converts the audio to text; and (c) a third computer code instruction portion for re-assembling the text converted by the plurality of speech recognition engines.
- the computer-readable medium comprising;
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