Speech recognition and editing system

A method for facilitating access to supplemental information relating to text items entered into an editing application program by a speech recognition system, said supplemental information defining alternate possible translations of utterances stored in a dictation event database (DEDB) maintained by the speech recognition system;

• maintaining a speech event database (SEDB) associated with the editing program containing text items entered by said speech recognition system and context information identifying preceding and following text items;
• in response to a user initiated change in the editing point in the editing program, extracting and caching a preselected region of that around the new editing point and creating a context list characterizing said region;
• searching the speech SEDB event database for text items matching items in said context list thereby to create a mapping of the list to the SEDB;
• using said speech event database as an index into said dictation event database for correcting previously misrecognized utterances.

A method for facilitating access to supplemental information relating to text items entered into a word processing application program by a speech recognition system, said supplemental information including alternate translations of dictation events stored in a dictation event database (DEDB)

• maintained by the speech recognition system;
• maintaining a speech event database (SEDB) associated with the editing program containing text items entered by said speech recognition system;
• in response to a user initiated change in the editing point in the editing program, extracting and caching a paragraph and creating as a context list characterizing a region of text around the new editing point;
• searching the speech SEDB event database for text items matching items in said context list thereby to create a mapping of the list to the SEDB and synthesizing new items in the SEDB corresponding to context list items for which no match is found;
• using said speech event database as an index into said dictation event database for correcting previously misrecognized dictation events.