System and method for providing speaker-specific records of statements of speakers
First Claim
1. A system for providing a speaker-specific record of entire statements of a plurality of speakers at a court proceeding, conference, meeting or other event at which the plurality of speakers address subjects without the system imposing limitations on subject matter, comprising:
- (a) a plurality of dedicated microphones for assignment to the plurality of speakers;
(b) means for electrically distinguishing each of the microphones;
(c) at least one computer programmed with speech recognition software including a plurality of dedicated speech recognition program components, each program component trained in the recognition, without subject matter limitation, of the speech of one of the speakers associated with one of the microphones; and
(d) means for assembling together the records of speech of the plurality of speakers into a single electronic record.
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Abstract
A speech processing system for the generation of speaker specific text output. To automatically generate a transcript of a trial, hearing, or. meeting, the system uses microphones dedicated to specific speakers along with one or more computers with speech recognition software assigned to each microphone. The system tracks the occurrences of speech and assembles a transcript of the participant'"'"'s spoken words including the speaker'"'"'s identity and a text version of the spoken words in the order the words were spoken.
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30 Claims
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1. A system for providing a speaker-specific record of entire statements of a plurality of speakers at a court proceeding, conference, meeting or other event at which the plurality of speakers address subjects without the system imposing limitations on subject matter, comprising:
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(a) a plurality of dedicated microphones for assignment to the plurality of speakers;
(b) means for electrically distinguishing each of the microphones;
(c) at least one computer programmed with speech recognition software including a plurality of dedicated speech recognition program components, each program component trained in the recognition, without subject matter limitation, of the speech of one of the speakers associated with one of the microphones; and
(d) means for assembling together the records of speech of the plurality of speakers into a single electronic record. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system for providing a speaker-specific record of entire statements of a plurality of speakers at a court proceeding, conference, meeting or other event at which the plurality of speakers address subjects without the system imposing limitations in subject matter, comprising:
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(a) a plurality of dedicated microphones for assignment to the plurality of speakers, (b) at least one computer programmed with speech recognition software without subject matter limitation and a word processor program, and (c) electrically distinctive communication links connected to transmit recognizable outputs of the microphones to the at least one computer, whereby statements at the plurality of microphones are readily identifiable for conversion to a text record identifying the speakers based on the microphones into which they speak. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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21. A method for providing speaker specific text output from speech input of a plurality of speakers at a court proceeding, conference, meeting or other event at which the plurality of speakers address subjects without the system imposing limitations on subject matter, comprising:
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(a) assigning a plurality of dedicated microphones to a plurality of speakers to produce electrical signals representative of statements of the speakers;
(b) electrically distinguishing signals representative of statements of each of the speakers;
(c) processing the signals representative of statements of the plurality of speakers with at least one computer having speech recognition software without subject matter limitation, and (d) assembling into a combined electronic record the processed signals representative of the statements of the speakers along with indicia identifying the speakers based on recognition of the electrical identification of step (b). - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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