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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7369997 | Controlling speech recognition functionality in a computing device A system and method for use in computing systems that employ speech recognition capabilities is provided. Where recognized speech can be dictation and commands, one or more buttons may be used to change modes of said computing systems to accept spoken words as dicta... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7274775 | Transcription playback speed setting A computer program product resides on a computer-readable medium, and includes computer-readable, computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to analyze a first playback speed history for at least one audio recording recorded by a first speaker and playe... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7265747 | Optically based operating device for a household appliance An operating element can be used to operate or control a household appliance, for example a cook top heating element. A seven-segment display is arranged beneath a cover in the region of a contact surface. A light source and a light receiver are arranged inside resp... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7203288 | Intelligent routing of voice files in voice data management system A portable digital voice recorder is interfaced for data communication with a personal computer. The personal computer is connected by a data communication network with other devices such as other personal computers, a central dictation system, and/or a voice mail s... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7075671 | System and method for providing a printing capability for a transcription service or multimedia presentation A system and method for providing a printing capability using peripheral or stand-alone devices are disclosed. In the system and method, portions of a multimedia presentation, transcribed text, or both are output to a printing device. In the preferred embodiment, tr... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7065182 | Voice mail message repositioning device A voice message repositioning process is provided for a voice message system that stores voice messages for a user of the system and provides feedback to the user of the progress of repositioning the playback of a voice message. A voice message is repositioned upon ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7031998 | Systems and methods for automatically managing workflow based on optimization of job step scheduling A system is disclosed that includes one or more “HOME”s where there is a (1) “DAD” computer and software system for human User interaction to initiate Jobs (Transcription, Translation, Data Entry, and Transaction Creation) and to utilize voice-mail through r... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6937706 | System and method for data recording A system and method for monitoring a telephone switching environment. In a preferred embodiment the system and method simultaneously monitor both an SMDR link and a real-time CTI link, gather information about calls from both sources, and combine gathered informatio... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6856959 | Foot switch for a computer In an input unit (3) which can be operated by foot for a computer (1) which forms a dictating machine with foot-operated input means (24) for manually inputting control information (SI) by which information an audio reproduction mode of the dict... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6549614 | Method and apparatus for recording and managing communications for transcription A server located at a first location for recording and managing communications for transcription generated at a second location. Clients contact the server to store communications for transcription. The client is given the option to create a user configur... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6522724 | Apparatus and method that allow telephone callers to leave longer messages A messaging system allows a message recipient to assign different message lengths to different messages. In one embodiment, the recipient sets the length of time per message. In another embodiment, the recipient programs the messaging system with codes th... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6493672 | Automatic distribution of voice files The proceedings of a business meeting are recorded on a portable digital audio recorder. The resulting digitized speech signals are uploaded to a personal computer which is part of a data communication network. Users of the network may arrange to access t... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6298326 | Off-site data entry system An off-site data entry system comprises a computer device located at a dictation station, the computer device comprising a means to accept voice dictation from a user. The device further comprises a converter means which functions to convert the voice dic... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6282154 | Portable hands-free digital voice recording and transcription device A portable hands-free documentation system includes a headset microphone in communication with a portable recording unit having analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion means therein. The portable unit further includes means for recording digita... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6259657 | Dictation system capable of processing audio information at a remote location A personal medical dictation system that can be easily and conveniently used to capture and preserve audio information. The system includes a specially designed portable, hand-held recording component that is of a small size, but yet is capable of storing... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6175822 | Method and system for providing network based transcription services A method and system of providing network based transcription of free-form speech signals. A speech signal is recorded as a digital audio file in a storage medium and is then streamed over a data network to a client terminal for transcription. As the speec... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6134266 | Modem system with voice message function A modem system having a voice message function of generating voices corresponding to a calling tone, an answering tone and a series of handshake operations, in which one modem calls another modem, answers thereto, exchanges parameters and digital data bet... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6002558 | Method of and apparatus for expanding functionality of vehicle cassette tape-player decks to permit dictation or other recording and automatic remote station relaying of the same Method and apparatus for expanding the functionality of vehicle cassette tape player decks to permit driver dictation or other recording and automatic remote station relaying of same through integration with cellular radio telephone apparatus and the like... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5812882 | Digital dictation system having a central station that includes component cards for interfacing to dictation stations and transcription stations and for processing and storing digitized dictation segments A modular digital dictation system that can be easily modified to service a variable number of dictation stations and transcription stations. The modular digital dictation station comprises a central station for receiving digitized dictation signals from ... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5740543 | Portable telephone set incorporating a message recording feature A receiving section receives a radio signal and sends out a demodulation output thereof to a receiver. A transmitting unit modulates a voice signal input from a transmitter and transmits the voice signal as a radio signal. A voice memory unit stores the v... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5598463 | Remote terminal for central dictating system A control unit, connected to a telephone, sends tone signals to a central dictating/recording unit in response to a user pressing buttons on an auxiliary keypad. The auxiliary keypad, in the form of a thin, membrane-type switch unit, adheres to the back o... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5459702 | Apparatus and method of improving the quality of recorded dictation in moving vehicles A dictation system is disclosed which includes circuitry for eliminating or substantially reducing the effect of uncontrollable ambient noise typically found in a passenger compartment of a moving vehicle. The system utilizes or incorporates, for example,... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5430743 | Method and apparatus for recovering data in a radio communication system A radio communication system receiver employs a demodulator (104) to recover a received signal. The receiver of the present invention further includes a channel quality estimator (222) for estimating a characteristic of the communication channel over whic... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5398220 | Portable dictation recording device having a mechanism for transmitting recorded dictation to a remote device The invention relates to a portable voice recording device. The device includes a microphone for generating an electrical signal representative of an acoustic speech signal. An analog to digital converter receives the electric signal from the microphone a... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5353259 | Voice message recovery system and method This invention relates to a communication system and method wherein messages are transmitted and stored in voice mail boxes. The system and method provide the ability on the part of an author to recover a message before access to the message by a recipien... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5265075 | Voice processing system with editable voice files A central dictation system includes apparatus for prerecording standard voice files. Users of the system may select one of the prerecorded files. The selected file is copied to a new file, which the user is free to edit. The edited file is assigned to a t... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5235571 | Dictation machine which is hand-held in operation In a hand-held dictation machine (1), which comprises a substantially elongate housing (2) comprising a cover wall (8), a base wall (9), a first longitudinal side wall (10), a second longitudinal side wall (11), an upper transverse side wall (12) and a lo... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5179627 | Digital dictation system A digitally implemented central dictation system wherein users designated as dictators may input Voice Files for later retrieval and transcription by a second group of users designated as transcriptionists. A system Supervisor has the capability to monito... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5163085 | Digital dictation system with voice mail capability A digitally implemented central dictation system wherein users designated as dictators may input Voice Files for later retrieval and transcription by a second group of users designated as transcriptionists. A system Supervisor has the capability to monito... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5063698 | Greeting card with electronic sound recording In one embodiment, the personalized greeting card includes an independent, detachable, electronic memory device that stores electronic signals, a mechanism for retrieving the electronic signals from the memory device, a voice synthesizer which obtains the... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5033077 | Voice message delivery to unattended station Apparatus for apprising an unattended station of the presence of a voice message awaiting retrieval from a voice mail system. The voice mail system is connected to the unattended station, as by automatic telephone dialing, whereupon activating signals are... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5008871 | Dictate/transcribe control for digital dictation system A digital dictation system having plural ports through which dictate and transcribe stations may be connected to a central store via respective dictate and transcribe channels for recording and transcribing messages. The transcribe port may be selectively... | 04/16/1991 |
| 5007078 | Automated order entry recording method and apparatus A system and method for recording voice messages received in an automated message exchange system. Voice messages are digitized by the message exchange system at the time they are received. At a convenient time determined by the computer of the message sy... | 04/09/1991 |
| 5003575 | Method and apparatus for storing and forwarding voice signals with controlled access A method and apparatus for storing and forwarding voice signals wherein a user has increased control and flexibility in distributing voice signals. In one embodiment the originator of a stored voice signal may restrict an addressee's ability to forward a ... | 03/26/1991 |
| 5003574 | Voice capture system A voice capture system for use with a telephone switching system and transcribing terminals to record calling party generated information in predefined formats. The system digitizes and records messages generated by calling parties served by the telephone... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4975896 | Communications network and method The network is particularly useful in office communications. The network includes a plurality of transceiver units, each of which can be used as a telephone, or as a dictation terminal, or optionally as an automatic telephone answering machine. The networ... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4969136 | Communications network and method with appointment information communication capabilities The network is particularly useful in office communications. The network includes a plurality of transceiver units, each of which can be used as a telephone, or as a dictation terminal, or optionally as an automatic telephone answering machine. The networ... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4955051 | Dictating apparaus which is remotely controlled utilizing a push-button telephone A telephone dictating apparatus comprises DTMF signal converting means which converts DTMF signals given by depressing four push-buttons arranged in one of three longitudinal lines to four mode signals in the same order as the four push-buttons which have... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4885764 | Automatic answering telephone system using main and auxiliary recording mediums An auxiliary recording medium for recording an incoming message is provided in addition to a main recording medium conventionally provided. Thus, an incoming message is first recorded into the auxiliary recording medium and is then recorded into the main ... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4860339 | Programmable telephone/dictation terminal and method of operating same A programmable telephone/dictation terminal that can be disposed in any one of several different modes of operation including, but not limited to, dictating information onto a recorder, communicating over a telephone network, recording incoming messages r... | 08/22/1989 |
