Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Inc.

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

James P Lerner

Richard Scott Goldhor

Christopher N Hume

John F Dooley

Brian D Wilson

Alan E Bell

The text is generated from voice input that divides the processing of each spoken word into a dictation event and a text event. Each dictation event handles the processing of data relating to the input into the system, and each text event deals with the generation of text from the inputted voice signals. In order to easily distinguish the dictation events from each other and text events from each other the system and method creates a data structure for storing certain information relating to each individual event. Such data structures enable the system and method to process both simple spoken words as well as spoken commands and to provide the necessary text generation in response to the spoken words or to execute an appropriate function in response to a command.

Historical database storing relationships of successively spoken words

In a computer system, an arrangement for storing condition signals indicative of the position of a pointing device and the condition of a button thereof, apparatus for comparing present condition signals generated by a pointing device with stored signals indicative of a previous condition of the pointing device, and apparatus responsive to the comparison of present condition signals generated by a pointing device for generating a pointer interrupt signal only if a change in the pointer condition has occurred.

System for storing a history of sampled pointer signals when a pointer

Disclosed is a system and method for generating text from a voice input that divides the processing of each speech event into a dictation event and a text event. Each dictation event handles the processing of data relating to the input into the system, and each text event deals with the generation of text from the inputted voice signals. In order to easily distinguish the dictation events from each other and text events from each other the system and method creates a data structure for storing certain information relating to each individual event. Such data structures enable the system and method to process both simple spoken words as well as spoken commands and to provide the necessary text generation in response to the spoken words or to execute an appropriate function in response to a command. Speech recognition includes the ability to distinguish between dictation text and commands.

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