Historical database storing relationships of successively spoken words

A system for generating text in response to a succession of audio signals representing spoken input events provided by a user, said system comprising:

• means for comparing each spoken input event with a plurality of tokens representing vocabulary words thereby to identify a plurality of candidate words which may correspond to the spoken input event, each candidate being scored as to likelihood of match;
• means enabling a user to accept one of said candidate words;
• computer implemented means for generating and storing, for each spoken input event, a data record which includes:
• the identity of the candidate tokens
• the identity of the best matching candidate token
• the identity of the word accepted by the user and
• data placing the chronology of the respective data record relative other data records;
• thereby to generate a dictation event database useful for backing up in the generated text and changing the word accepted by the user.

A system for generating text in response to a succession of audio signals representing spoken input events provided by a user, said system comprising:

• means for comparing each spoken input event with a plurality of tokens representing vocabulary words thereby to identify a plurality of candidate tokens which may correspond to the spoken input event;
• means enabling a user to accept one of said candidate tokens;
• computer implemented means responsive to an accepted candidate token for generating and storing a data record which includes:
• data defining the respective input event
• data placing the chronology of the record with respect to other similarly generated records
• data defining any hierarchical relationship to other similarly generated records;
• thereby to generate a text event database useful in backing up in the generated text and making corrections.

A system for generating text in response to a succession of audio signals representing spoken input events provided by a user, said system comprising:

• means for comparing each spoken input event with a plurality of tokens representing vocabulary words thereby to identify a plurality of candidate words which may correspond to the spoken input event, each candidate being scored as to likelihood of match;
• means enabling a user to accept one of said candidate words;
• computer implemented means for generating and storing, for each spoken input event, a dictation event data record which includes:
• the identity of the candidate words
• the identity of the best matching candidate word
• the identity of the word accepted by the user and
• data placing the chronology of the respective data record relative other data records;
• means responsive to an accepted candidate word for generating a text event data record which includes:
• data defining the respective input event
• data placing the chronology of the record with respect to other similarly generated records
• data defining any hierarchical relationship to other similarly generated records;
• thereby to generate a database useful in backing up in the generated text and making corrections.

A system for generating text in response to a succession of input events provided by a user, said input events including audio signals representing speech input and manual events representing manual input events, said system comprising:

• means for comparing each spoken input event with a plurality of tokens representing vocabulary words thereby to identify a plurality of candidate tokens which may correspond to the spoken input event;
• means enabling a user to accept one of said candidate tokens;
• computer implemented means responsive to an accepted candidate token or a manual event for generating and storing a data record which includes:
• data defining the type of input event
• data placing the chronology of the record with respect to other similarly generated records
• thereby to generate a text event database useful in backing up in the generated text and making corrections.

A system for generating structured text in response to a succession of audio signals representing spoken input events provided by a user, said system comprising:

• a plurality of tokens representing vocabulary words including both text words and command words, at least one of said command words being associated with a text form having fields to be filled in;
• means for comparing each spoken input event with at least a preselected group of said tokens thereby to identify candidate words which correspond to the spoken input events;
• means enabling a user to accept a candidate word;
• computer implemented means responsive to an accepted candidate word for generating and storing a text event data record which includes:
• data defining the respective input event
• data defining any hierarchical relationship to other similarly generated records, text event data records associated with filling in fields in said text form being inferior to a text event data record associated with said text form;
• thereby to generate a text event database useful in subsequent editing of the structured text.

A system for generating structured text in response to a succession of audio signals representing spoken input events provided by a user, said system comprising:

• a plurality of tokens representing vocabulary words including both text words and command words, at least one of said command words being associated with a text form having fields to be filled in;
• means for comparing each spoken input event with at least a preselected group of said tokens thereby to identify candidate words which correspond to the spoken input events;
• means enabling a user to accept a candidate word;
• computer implemented means for generating and storing, for each spoken input event, a data record which includes:
• the identity of the candidate words
• the identity of the best matching candidate word and
• the identity of the correct candidate;
• computer implemented means responsive to an accepted candidate word for generating and storing a text event data record which includes:
• data defining the respective input event
• data defining any hierarchical relationship to other similarly generated records, text event data records associated with filling in fields in said text form being inferior to a text event data record associated with said text form;
• thereby to generate a database useful in subsequent editing of the structured text.