Real-time transcription system

• US 7,376,561 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2004
• Issued: 05/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Irene Alexandra Holyk Rennillo, Louis Ralph Rennillo, Randy Zinn
• Original Assignee: Irene Alexandra Holyk Rennillo, Louis Ralph Rennillo, Randy Zinn
• Inventors: Rennillo, Irene Alexandra Holyk, Zinn, Randy, Rennillo, Louis Ralph
• Primary Examiner(s): ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH
• Application Number:
  US10/785,763
• Publication Number:
  US 20050187766A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,548 Days
• Field of Search: 704/235, 704/260, 704/270, 709/219
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

A transcription system and method that includes a transcription terminal for recording spoken words as units of transcribed text, and a conversion unit for translating the units of transcribed text into a generally accurate transcript of the spoken words and converting said transcript into a signal to be transmitted to an authorized receiving unit over a communication link. The system and method optionally includes any of a presentation object to be transmitted to the authorized receiving unit, a wireless access point for transmitting serial data representing the transcript, and suppression of an automatic network identifier.

Claims

1. A method for providing real-time access to a transcript being developed from spoken words, said method comprising the steps of:

recording said spoken words as units of transcribed text;

translating said units of transcribed text into a generally accurate transcript of said spoken words;

converting said transcript of said spoken words into a signal to be transmitted to an authorized receiving unit over a communication link;

transmitting a presentation object to said authorized receiving unit for presenting said transcript; and

transmitting said signal and;

identifying said authorized receiving unit as being authorized to receive said transcript, wherein said step of identifying said authorized receiving unit comprises the steps of;

suppressing transmission of an automatically assigned network identifier over said communication link;

manually assigning a network identifier that is to be used to identify a recipient as having authorization to receive said transcript; and

comparing an identifier entered by said recipient at a receiving unit with said manually assigned network identifier.

2. A method for providing real-time access to a transcript being developed from spoken words, said method comprising the steps of:

recording said spoken words as units of transcribed text;

translating said units of transcribed text into a generally accurate transcript of said spoken words;

converting said transcript of said spoken words into a signal to be transmitted to an authorized receiving unit over a communication link;

transmitting a presentation object to said authorized receiving unit for presenting said transcript; and

transmitting said signal, wherein said step of transmitting said presentation object and said signal comprise transmitting said presentation object and said signal over a wireless communication link comprising the steps of;

diverting said presentation object and said signal from a communication port of a conversion unit to a network port of said conversion unit;

transmitting said presentation object and said signal from said conversion unit through said network port to a wireless access point; and

broadcasting said presentation object and said signal from said wireless access point to a dedicated network address.

3. A transcription system for providing real-time access to a transcript being developed from spoken words, said system comprising:

a transcription terminal for recording spoken words as units of transcribed text;

a conversion unit for translating said units of transcribed text into a generally accurate transcript of said spoken words and converting said transcript into a signal;

a security object that prevents an automatically assigned network identifier from being transmitted to a network including at least one authorized receiving unit; and

a manually assigned network identifier to be entered at a receiving unit to verify authorization of said receiving unit to receive said transcript of said spoken words.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein said security object includes computer readable logic for suppressing transmission of said automatically assigned network identifier.

5. The system according to claim 3, wherein said automatically assigned network identifier is a service set identifier.

6. The system according to claim 3 further comprising a presentation object to be transmitted to said authorized receiving unit.

7. The system according to claim 3 further comprising a wireless access point operatively connected to said conversion unit for transmitting said signal to said authorized receiving unit over a wireless communication link.

8. The system according to claim 3, wherein said wireless communication link is a wireless local area network.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein said wireless access point transmits said signal to a dedicated network address.

10. The system according to claim 3, wherein said manually assigned network identifier is to entered at said authorized receiving unit to join said network.

11. The system according to claim 3, wherein said network is a wide area network.

12. A method for providing real-time access to a transcript being developed from spoken words, said method comprising the steps of:

recording said spoken words as units of transcribed text;

translating said units of transcribed text into a generally accurate transcript of said spoken words;

converting said transcript into a signal;

suppressing transmission of an automatically generated network identifier to a network;

manually assigning a network identifier that is to be entered at a receiving unit to verify authorization of said receiving unit to receive said transcript; and

transmitting said signal upon verifying authorization of said receiving unit to receive said transcript.

13. The method according to claim 12 further comprising the step of transmitting a presentation object to said receiving unit upon verifying said authorization of said receiving unit to receive said transcript.