Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Nuance Communications Austria Gmbh

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Wolfgang Gschwendtner

Kresimir Rajic

A speech recognition device () processes speech data (SD) of a dictation and thus establishes recognized text information (ETI) and link information (LI) of the dictation. In a synchronous playback mode of the speech recognition device (), during the acoustic playback of the dictation a correction device () synchronously marks the word of the recognized text information (ETI) which word relates to the speech data (SD) just played back marked by the link information (LI) is marked synchronously, the just marked word featuring the position of an audio cursor (AC). When a user of the speech recognition device () recognizes an incorrect word, he positions a text cursor (TC) at the incorrect word and corrects it. Cursor synchronization means () now make it possible to synchronize the text cursor (TC) with the audio cursor (AC) or the audio cursor (AC) with the text cursor (TC), by positioning the text cursor at a predetermined position relative to the audio cursor, so that the positioning of the respective cursor (AC, TC) is simplified considerably.

Synchronise an audio cursor and a text cursor during editing

A speech recognition device () processes speech data (SD) of a dictation and establishes recognized text information (ETI) and link information (LI) of the dictation. In a synchronous playback mode of the speech recognition device (), during acoustic playback of the dictation a correction device () synchronously marks the word of the recognized text information (ETI) which word relates to speech data (SD) just played back marked by link information (LI) is marked synchronously, the just marked word featuring the position of an audio cursor (AC). When a user of the speech recognition device () recognizes an incorrect word, he positions a text cursor (TC) at the incorrect word and corrects it. Cursor synchronization means () makes it possible to synchronize text cursor (TC) with audio cursor (AC) or audio cursor (AC) with text cursor (TC) so the positioning of the respective cursor (AC, TC) is simplified considerably.

A speech recognition device () processes speech data (SD) of a dictation and thus establishes recognized text information (ETI) and link information (LI) of the dictation. In a synchronous playback mode of the speech recognition device (), during the acoustic playback of the dictation a correction device () synchronously marks the word of the recognized text information (ETI) which word relates to the speech data (SD) just played back marked by the link information (LI) is marked synchronously, the just marked word featuring the position of an audio cursor (AC). When a user of the speech recognition device () recognizes an incorrect word, he positions a text cursor (TC) at the incorrect word and corrects it. Cursor synchronization means () now make it possible to synchronize the text cursor (TC) with the audio cursor (AC) or the audio cursor (AC) with the text cursor (TC) so that the positioning of the respective cursor (AC, TC) is simplified considerably.

A correction device ( ) for a speech recognition device ( ) is provided, with which the replacement of incorrectly recognized words (FETI) of the recognized text (ETI) is especially simple to execute. The correction device ( ) is based on the recognition that the phoneme sequences of incorrectly recognized words and the spoken words actually to be recognized are very similar, and automatically marks words in the recognized text (ETI) which show a phoneme sequence similar to that of a correction word (KWI) put in by the user.

Select a recognition error by comparing the phonetic

In a correction device ( ) for correcting a text (ET) recognized by a speech recognition device ( ) from a spoken text (GT), marking means ( ) are provided for storing marking information (WMI) in memory means ( ), which marking information (WMI) flags those parts of the recognized text (ET) and/or of the spoken text (GT) that were reproduced at least once by reproduction means ( ) in a synchronous reproduction mode. In this way, parts of the recognized text (ET) and the spoken text (GT) that have already been reproduced once can be acoustically or visually marked, and different parts can be reproduced depending on whether reproduction takes place for the first time or is repeated.

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