Method and apparatus for voice dictation and document production
First Claim
1. A method of generating text including variable data in an electronic spoken dictation-to-text system, comprising:
- converting spoken dictation to a first string of text in a voice recognition engine;
decoding a macro name in the first string of text, the macro name having associated therewith a second string of text and a variable value;
prompting a user for the variable value;
converting additional spoken dictation to a third string of text in the voice recognition engine, the third string of text comprising a representation of the variable value; and
combining the second string of text with the third string of text.
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Abstract
Multiple documents including multiple fields may be produced using a voice recognition engine to transcribe dictated notes. An embodiment of an apparatus to generate documents from a user'"'"'s dictation may include a computer interface and a computer in communication with the computer interface including a voice recognition engine, a database, and a memory. A method of entry of dictation into a plurality of documents may include receiving an indication of a selection of a plurality of documents from a list of documents, receiving an indication of a field descriptor of a first field in a document, receiving dictated speech to be entered into the first field, writing transcribed text representative of the dictated speech to the first field, and writing the transcribed text to other fields having the same descriptor in each of the other selected plurality of documents.
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27 Claims
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1. A method of generating text including variable data in an electronic spoken dictation-to-text system, comprising:
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converting spoken dictation to a first string of text in a voice recognition engine;
decoding a macro name in the first string of text, the macro name having associated therewith a second string of text and a variable value;
prompting a user for the variable value;
converting additional spoken dictation to a third string of text in the voice recognition engine, the third string of text comprising a representation of the variable value; and
combining the second string of text with the third string of text. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method of generating a document from spoken dictation of a user, comprising:
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acquiring data related to a plurality of dictation subjects;
populating a database with the acquired data related to the plurality of dictation subjects;
receiving identification of a first document from a plurality of documents, the first document having a plurality of fields for data entry;
receiving identification of a first field in the plurality of fields for data entry;
receiving dictated voice into an audio input device;
generating, by a voice recognition engine operatively coupled to the audio input device, a first audio portion and a first text portion from the dictated voice, wherein the first audio portion and the first text portion are associated with the first field for data, and wherein the first audio portion is stored in an audio file and the first text portion is stored in an editable text file;
storing the audio file and editable text file in a first logical memory location;
receiving edits to the first text portion; and
storing the edited first text portion as a second document in a second logical memory location. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A machine readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of executable instructions, the plurality of instructions comprising instructions to:
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acquire data related to a plurality of dictation subjects;
populate a database with the acquired data related to the plurality of dictation subjects;
receive identification of a first document from a plurality of documents, the first document having a plurality of fields for data entry;
receive identification of a first field in the plurality of fields for data entry;
receive dictated voice into an audio input device;
generate, by a voice recognition engine operatively coupled to the audio input device, a first audio portion and a first text portion from the dictated voice, wherein the first audio portion and the first text portion are associated with the first field for data, and wherein the first audio portion is stored in an audio file and the first text portion is stored in an editable text file;
store the audio file and editable text file in a first logical memory location;
receive edits to the first text portion; and
store the edited first text portion as a second document in a second logical memory location. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A method of generating a document by dictation to a handheld computing device, comprising:
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selecting, by a first user at the handheld computing device;
a first dictation subject from a set of dictation subjects, application data having a plurality of fields for data entry, and a first field from the plurality of fields;
dictating, by the first user, speech into the handheld computing device, wherein the dictated speech is associated by an index with the first field;
repeating the dictating and associating for other fields in the plurality of fields;
storing the dictated speech as an audio file, the index, and the application data in a memory of the handheld computing device;
transferring the audio file, index, and application data to a memory of a server via a data transfer mechanism;
processing, at the server, the audio file content in a voice recognition engine to generate transcribed text associated with the plurality of fields of the application data in accordance with the index;
storing the processed audio file content as an editable transcribed text file;
editing, by a second user having access to the server, the editable transcribed text file;
updating a voice model of the first user based on editing by the second user;
storing the editable transcribed text file as a read-only transcribed text file in a read-only format;
deleting the editable transcribed text file, index, and audio file from the memory of the server; and
generating a report from the read-only transcribed text file.
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