Voice prompting and indexing dictation recorder
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US · United States
- Patent Type
- Patents(United States)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- GOUGH JESSE LYNN
- Publication Date
- 2003-04-15
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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Abstract
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CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONSNot Applicable.STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENTNot Applicable.BACKGROUND--FIELD OF INVENTIONThis invention relates to personal hand-held dictation recorders, specifically to an improved method for providing cue-and-review indexing and prompting functions during dictation and transcription.BACKGROUND--DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ARTDictation recorders, often also referred to as dictating machines, have appeared in many forms. Early forms were bulky desk units operated by controls located on a cable-attached hand-held microphone. Later manifestations have included hand-held tape recorders (e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 4,227,222 to Sato and Kobayashi, 1980), central dictation systems (e.g., U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,936,805 to Bringol, et al., 1976, and 4,041,249 to Matz and Foster, 1977), digital dictation systems (e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 5,179,627 to Sweet, et.al., 1993), and personal computer dictation systems (e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 5,197,05...