Voice scratchpad

A system for deriving data from a voice communication, the system comprising:

• a voice scratchpad module configured to be executed on an on-board vehicle computing device, the voice scratchpad module being configured to detect an audio connection between the on-board vehicle computing device and a communications device, the voice scratchpad module further being configured to present a voice scratchpad graphical user interface on a display associated with the computing device, the graphical user interface including a selector, which upon selection by a user causes the voice scratchpad module to process voice data received via the audio connection to obtain recognized speech data;
• and
• an annotation engine configured to be executed on the on-board vehicle computing device, the annotation engine being configured to annotate the recognized speech data to produce structured data in one of a plurality of predetermined formats based on the recognized speech data,
• wherein the voice scratchpad module is configured to receive the structured data from the annotation engine, and display the structured data on the voice scratchpad graphical user interface, the voice scratchpad module further configured to display a clip management tool on the voice scratchpad graphical user interface, the clip management tool being configured to display a list of structured data for a plurality of voice communications, and one or more option selectors for managing the structured data in the list;
• wherein the voice scratchpad module is further configured to display in the voice scratchpad graphical user interface a link to a related application for each type of data in the structured data, the link being configured to launch the related application upon selection, the voice scratchpad module further being configured to output the structured data for further processing by the related application, wherein the related application comprises a navigation application, the structured data comprises point of interest data, and the navigation application is configured to:
• launch when the link for the navigation application is selected, and
• receive the point of interest data from the on-board vehicle computing device for further processing.

A method of deriving data from a voice communication, the method comprising:

• detecting an audio connection between an on-board vehicle computing device and a communications device, wherein the communications device is a microphone or a mobile telephone;
• presenting a voice scratchpad graphical user interface on a display associated with the computing device, the voice scratchpad graphical user interface including a selector to initiate processing of the voice communication;
• receiving a selection of the selector by a user to initiate voice data processing;
• processing voice data received via the audio connection to obtain recognized speech data in response to receiving a selection of the selector by the user;
• annotating the recognized speech data to produce structured data in one of a plurality of predetermined formats based on the recognized speech data;
• displaying the structured data on the voice scratchpad graphical user interface;
• displaying in the voice scratchpad graphical user interface a link for accessing the structured data via a related application;
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• displaying a clip management tool on the voice scratchpad graphical user interface, the clip management tool being configured to display a list of structured data for a plurality of voice communications, and one or more option selectors for managing the structured data in the list,
• wherein the predetermined format of the structured data includes point of interest data, and the related application comprises a navigation application that is configured to launch when the link is selected and to receive the point of interest data from the on-board vehicle computing device for further processing.