Data stream editing system including a hand-held voice-editing apparatus having a position-finding enunciator

A conversion application operable on a PC comprising:

• a display function adapted for displaying a file comprising both machine-operable text code and digitally-recorded voice data as a single serial graphical representation on a video display screen, the text code displayed as text characters and the voice data displayed as a serial graphic in series with the text according to the position of the voice data in the file relative to the text code, the serial graphic representing voice data having an overall length corresponding to the quantity of the voice data;
• a cursor function comprising a screen cursor moveable on the screen by input via a pointer device, and adapted to place an editing cursor in the displayed file;
• an enunciator function for rendering digitally-recorded voice data as audible voice;
• and
• a keyboard for entering machine-operable text code to the file;
• wherein placing the editing cursor in one of the voice regions causes the enunciator function to play the voice data as audible speech beginning at the point the editing cursor is placed, and wherein text entered at the keyboard word-for-word corresponding to the enunciated audible speech replaces the serial graphic representing recorded voice, thereby converting the voice data to text data in both the file and the display.

A dual-nature word processor software application operable on a personal computer (PC) comprising:

• a display function adapted for displaying a file having a first region adapted to contain machine-operable text code and a second region adapted to contain digitally recorded voice data, wherein the first region is displayed on a PC screen as text, and the second region is displayed on the PC screen by a non-text serial graphical indication of voice data;
• a cursor function adapted to display a cursor on the PC screen, the cursor moveable on the screen by manipulation of a pointer device;
• a text entry function adapted for accepting text input and adding said text input to the file;
• and
• an audio editing mode;
• wherein, in the audio editing mode, the cursor is operable to enable the second region at a selected point to enunciate digitally-recorded voice data beginning at the selected point, and wherein entering text by typing at the keyboard replaces the enunciated voice data both in the file and in the display.

A word processor comprising:

• a personal computer having a display monitor with a display screen;
• a microphone port;
• a speaker port;
• a word processor file loadable and displayable on the display screen, the file having a first region adapted to contain machine-operable text code and a second region adapted to contain digitally recorded voice data;
• a display function adapted for displaying the file, wherein the first region is displayed on a PC screen as text, and the second region is displayed on a PC screen by a non-text graphical indication of voice data;
• a cursor function adapted to display a cursor on the PC screen, the cursor moveable on the screen by manipulation of a pointer device;
• a keyboard input device;
• and
• an audio editing mode;
• wherein, in the audio editing mode, the cursor is operable to enable the second region at a selected point to enunciate digitally-recorded voice data beginning at the selected point, and wherein entering text by typing at the keyboard replaces the enunciated voice data both in the file and in the display.

A computerized video editor comprising:

• a video data stream stored in an addressable digital file, the data stream having a beginning and an end and a natural direction from the beginning to the end;
• an interactive serial graphic presentation of the natural data stream on a display, the serial graphic presentation also having a beginning and an end representing the beginning and the end of the natural data stream, and a direction representing the natural direction of the natural data stream;
• a selection function for selecting portions of the graphic presentation;
• a viewing function associated with a cursor, wherein selected portions of the serial graphic presentation may be displayed in a window in the display;
• and
• user-selectable editing functions applicable to the selected portions;
• wherein a chosen editing function directed to a selected portion of the graphic presentation of the video data stream causes the editing function to be applied to the stored video data stream, thereby altering the addressable digital file.