Voice control input for portable capture devices

A capture device with voice control input comprising:

• a voice pickup component for capturing a first voice control input command and for outputting said first voice control input command as a first analog signal;
• an analog-to-digital converter, connected to said voice pickup component, for converting said first analog signal into a first digital signal;
• a controller, connected to said analog-to-digital converter, for receiving said first digital signal and for converting said first digital signal into a first recognition pattern;
• a dynamic memory, connected to said controller, for storing said first digital signal and said first recognition pattern;
• a static memory, connected to said controller, for storing at least one recognition pattern in a command recognition table, and for storing in said command recognition table a first set of instructions for performing a predetermined function, wherein said first set of instructions are linked to said at least one recognition pattern;
• a host connection connected to said controller;
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• a host computer system, separate from said capture device, wherein said host connection of said capture device is connected to a communications interface of said host computer system, allowing communication to occur between said capture device and said host computer system, and further wherein a plurality of voice inputs of at least one word to be used for invoking said predetermined function are captured by said voice pickup component, processed in said capture device into a plurality of digital signals which are transferred from said host connection to said communications interface in said host computer system, and further wherein said plurality of digital signals are analyzed with voice analysis software loaded into a memory in said host computer system, generating said at least one recognition pattern for said at least one word from said plurality of digital signals, and said at least one recognition pattern is transferred from said communications interface to said host connection of said capture device and stored in said command recognition table in said static memory in said capture device;
• wherein, said controller compares said first recognition pattern with said at least one recognition pattern in said command recognition table stored in said static memory, and further wherein, when said first recognition pattern and said at least one recognition pattern match, said controller executes said first set of instructions linked to said at least one recognition pattern for performing said predetermined function.