Systems and Methods for Providing an Electronic Dictation Interface

• US 20130046537A1
• Filed: 08/19/2011
• Published: 02/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dolbey and Company Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Dolbey & Company, Inc.
• Inventors: Weeks, Curtis A., Weeks, Aaron G., Barton, Stephen E.
• Granted Patent: US 8,589,160 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/28 Constructional details of speech recognition systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications

Abstract

Some embodiments disclosed herein store a target application and a dictation application. The target application may be configured to receive input from a user. The dictation application interface may include a full overlay mode option, where in response to selection of the full overlay mode option, the dictation application interface is automatically sized and positioned over the target application interface to fully cover a text area of the target application interface to appear as if the dictation application interface is part of the target application interface. The dictation application may be further configured to receive an audio dictation from the user, convert the audio dictation into text, provide the text in the dictation application interface and in response to receiving a first user command to complete the dictation, automatically copy the text from the dictation application interface and inserting the text into the target application interface.

Claims

1. A system for providing a dictation interface comprising:

a memory component that stores a target application and a dictation application, the target application configured to receive input from a user, the target application further configured to provide a target application interface for providing the input as text for display, wherein the dictation application causes the system to perform at least the following;

provide a dictation application interface for providing text for display, wherein the dictation application interface comprises a full overlay mode option, wherein in response to selection of the full overlay mode option, the dictation application interface is automatically sized and positioned over the target application interface to fully cover a text area of the target application interface to appear as if the dictation application interface is part of the target application interface;

receive an audio dictation from the user;

convert the audio dictation into text;

provide the text in the dictation application interface; and

in response to receiving a first user command to complete the dictation, automatically copy the text from the dictation application interface and insert the text into the target application interface.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the dictation application further causes the system to perform at least the following:

receive a second user command to move the target application interface; and

move the target application interface and the dictation application interface such that the dictation application interface appears to be part of the target application interface.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the dictation application further causes the system to automatically close the dictation application interface, in response to inserting the text into the target application interface.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein converting the audio dictation comprises at least one of the following:

performing a local machine conversion of the audio dictation into text, performing a remote machine conversion of the audio dictation into text, sending the audio dictation to a transcriptionist for transcription, sending the audio dictation to a remote machine to be converted to text and then sending to a transcriptionist, and performing the local machine conversion and sending the audio dictation and the local machine converted text to the transcriptionist.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the text is inserted at a predetermined cursor position in the target application interface.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the dictation application further causes the system to provide a medical dictation interface for providing a user option to include a text version of the audio dictation into a medical record.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the dictation application further causes the system to provide a partial overlay mode option, wherein in response to selection of the partial overlay mode option, the dictation application interface is automatically sized and positioned to cover a predetermined portion of the text area to appear as if the dictation application interface is part of the target application interface.

8. A method for providing a dictation interface, comprising:

actuating a target application, the target application configured to receive input from a user, the target application further configured to provide a target application interface for providing the input as text for display;

actuating a dictation application, the dictation application configured to receive an audio dictation from the user, the dictation application configured to convert the audio dictation into text for display, the dictation application further providing a dictation application interface for providing the audio dictation as text for display, wherein the dictation application interface comprises a full overlay mode option, a partial overlay mode option, and a windowed mode option, wherein in response to selection of the full overlay mode option, the dictation application interface is automatically sized and positioned over the target application interface to fully cover a text area of the target application interface to appear as if the dictation application interface is part of the target application interface, wherein in response to selection of the partial overlay mode option, the dictation application interface is automatically sized and positioned to cover a predetermined portion of the text area to appear as if the dictation application interface is part of the target application interface, wherein in response to selection of the windowed mode option, the dictation application interface is sized and positioned to appear separate from the target application interface;

receiving the audio dictation from the user;

converting the audio dictation into text;

providing the text in the dictation application interface; and

in response to receiving a first user command to complete, automatically copying the text from the dictation application interface and inserting the text into the target application interface.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving a second user command to move the target application interface; and

moving the target application interface and the dictation application interface such that the dictation application interface appears to be part of the target application interface.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising in response to inserting the text into the target application interface, automatically closing the dictation application interface.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein converting the audio dictation comprises at least one of the following:

performing a local machine conversion of the audio dictation into text, performing a remote machine conversion of the audio dictation into text, sending the audio dictation to a transcriptionist for transcription, sending the audio dictation to a remote machine to be converted to text and then sending to a transcriptionist, and performing the local machine conversion and sending the audio dictation and the local machine converted text to the transcriptionist.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the text is inserted at a predetermined cursor position in the target application interface.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising providing a medical dictation interface for providing a user option to include a text version of the audio dictation into a medical record.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium for providing a dictation interface that stores a dictation application that, when executed by a computing device, causes the computing device to perform at least the following:

receive an audio dictation from a user;

convert the audio dictation into text;

provide the text in a dictation application interface that is provided by the dictation application; and

in response to receiving a first user command to complete the dictation, automatically copy the text from the dictation application interface and insert the text into a target application interface of a target application, the target application interface comprising a text area, wherein the dictation application interface comprises a partial overlay mode option, wherein in response to selection of the partial overlay mode option, the dictation application interface is automatically sized and positioned to cover a predetermined portion of the text area to appear as if the dictation application interface is part of the target application interface.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the dictation application further causes the computing device to perform at least the following:

receive a second user command to move the target application interface; and

move the target application interface and the dictation application interface such that the dictation application interface appears to be part of the target application interface.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the dictation application further causes the computing device to automatically close the dictation application interface in response to inserting the text into the target application interface.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein converting the audio dictation comprises at least one of the following:

performing a local machine conversion of the audio dictation into text, performing a remote machine conversion of the audio dictation into text, sending the audio dictation to a transcriptionist for transcription, sending the audio dictation to a remote machine to be converted to text and then sending to a transcriptionist, and performing the local machine conversion and sending the audio dictation and the local machine converted text to the transcriptionist.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the text is inserted at a predetermined cursor position in the target application interface.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the dictation application further causes the computing device to provide a medical dictation interface for providing a user option to include a text version of the audio dictation into a medical record.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the dictation application interface further comprises a full overlay mode option, wherein in response to selection of the full overlay mode option, the dictation application interface is automatically sized and positioned over the target application interface to fully cover the text area of the target application interface to appear as if the dictation application interface is part of the target application interface.