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US RE38,080 E1Granted
Voice prompting and indexing dictation recorder
OwnerJesse Lynn Goughinventor
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Abstract
A method for improving dictation recorders and systems by providing a means to separately and independently record and store and, during any later dictation recording session, separately retrieve and audibly replay multiple dictation-indexing voice-prompt dictation cues, and thus by their successive replaying enable a dictator to be audibly prompted and thereby aided while dictating in conformance with a corresponding list, outline, instruction set, or standard form represented by said voice-prompt dictation cues.
Claims9
A personal hand-held dictation recorder comprising:
- (a) a means to separately and independently input multiple dictation-indexing voice-prompt dictation cues,
- (b) a means to separately and independently store said voice-prompt dictation cues,
- (c) a means to separately retrieve said stored voice-prompt dictation cues during any later dictation recording session, and
- (d) a means to audibly output said retrieved voice-prompt dictation cues during said later dictation recording session,
- whereby a dictator may prerecord and save a readily available and reusable personalized dictation template in the form of corresponding personally recorded voice-prompt dictation cues,
- whereby said dictator may during any later dictation recording session retrieve and audibly replay said personally recorded voice-prompt dictation cues as a means to dictation in concert with said cues, and
- whereby said replayed voice-prompt dictation cues may collectively serve to audibly prompt and thereby aid said dictator while dictating in conformance with a corresponding list, outline, instruction set, or standard form represented by said cues.
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A method for separately and independently recording and storing and, during any later dictation session, retrieving and replaying multiple dictation-indexing voice-prompt dictation cues with a personal hand-held digital dictation recorder, comprising:
- (a) an analog-to-digital conversion means to convert the microphone-input separate and independent analog signals of said voice-prompt dictation cues into digitized data,
- (b) a memory which is capable of storing and indexing said voice-prompt digitized data separately and independently from corresponding later dictation recording session digitized data,
- (c) a memory controller to:
- (1) direct said separate and independent storing and indexing of said voice-prompt digitized data in said memory,
- (2) direct said separate and independent storing and indexing of said corresponding later dictation recording session digitized data,
- (3) link said separately and independently stored and indexed voice-prompt digitized data to said corresponding later dictation recording session digitized data,
- (4) direct separate and independent retrieval from said memory of said stored and indexed voice-prompt digitized data,
- (5) direct combined retrieval of said stored and indexed voice-prompt digitized data and said linked corresponding dictation recording session digitized data, and
- (6) manage the update of said memory for all edits, deletions, replacements, and additions of said voice-prompt digitized data,
- (d) a digital-to-analog conversion means to convert said retrieved voice-prompt and corresponding dictation recording session digitized data back to analog signals,
- (e) a means to amplify and audibly output said analog signals, and
- (f) a selection and control means whereby a dictator may:
- (1) direct the separate and individual recording and storing of said voice-prompt dictation cues in said separate and independent memory,
- (2) direct the editing, replacing, or deleting of said separately and independently stored voice-prompt dictation cues, and
- (3) individually select the next or a specific said voice-prompt dictation cue and cause it to be independently converted by said digital-to-analog conversion means into said analog signal, amplified by said amplification means, and audibly replayed by said audible output means both during said voice-prompt recording and editing and during said dictation session recording,
- whereby a dictator may prerecord and save a readily available and reusable personalized dictation template in the form of corresponding personally recorded voice-prompt dictation cues,
- whereby said dictator may during any later dictation recording session retrieve and audibly replay said personally recorded voice-prompt dictation cues as a means to dictation in conformance with said cues, and
- whereby said personally recorded voice-prompt dictation cues may collectively serve to audibly prompt and thereby aid said dictator while dictating in conformance with a corresponding list, outline, instruction set, or standard form represented by said cues.
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