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Speech to text conversion

  • US 6,173,259 B1
  • Filed: 03/27/1998
  • Issued: 01/09/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/27/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A speech-to-text conversion system comprising at least one user terminal for recording speech, at leant one automatic speech recognition processor to generate text from a recorded speech file, and communication means operative to return a corresponding text file to a user, in which said at least one user terminal is remote from said at least one automatic speech recognition processor, and electronic mail is used to send text data generated by the automatic speech recognition processor, together with corresponding recorded speech data in a single file, to a correction unit for manual connection of the text file, wherein the electronic mail includes timing data for relating text to speech, and wherein at least some of the words of the text have an associated start and end time recorded as part of the timing data.

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