Automatic audio editor software for interviews and recorded speech

A system comprising:

• a display;
• a user input device;
• an audio communications terminal for sending and receiving audio messages;
• a recording medium coupled to the audio communications terminal for recording audio messages received via the audio communications terminal;
• a tagging system coupled to the recording medium for tagging each of the messages recorded on the recording medium as a function of a question with which each of the messages recorded on the recording medium is associated;
• and
• a processor coupled to the display, user input device, recording medium and tagging system, wherein the processor comprises code for performing the following steps for each question of a plurality of questions:
• initiating, by a user, one of the questions of the plurality of questions;
• displaying the one of the questions of the plurality of questions, having been initiated, on the display;
• recording via the audio communications terminal audio for a respective response associated with the one of the questions of the plurality of questions, having been initiated;
• directing the tagging system to tag the response associated with the one of the questions of the plurality of questions;
• and
• repeating the steps of each of the plurality of questions.