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Method and apparatus for voice dictation and document production

Mark Lucas, +2 more
- 11 Jul 2001 - 
- Vol. 118, Iss: 3, pp 1918-1918
TLDR
In this article, a method of entry of dictation into a plurality of documents may include receiving an indication of a selection of documents from a list of documents, receiving a field descriptor of a first field in a document, receiving dictated speech to be entered into the first field, writing transcribed text representative of the dictated speech, and writing the transcribed texts to other fields having the same descriptor in each of the other selected plurality of document.
Abstract
Multiple documents including multiple fields may be produced using a voice recognition engine to transcribe dictated notes. An embodiment of an apparatus to generate documents from a user's dictation may include a computer interface and a computer in communication with the computer interface including a voice recognition engine, a database, and a memory. A method of entry of dictation into a plurality of documents may include receiving an indication of a selection of a plurality of documents from a list of documents, receiving an indication of a field descriptor of a first field in a document, receiving dictated speech to be entered into the first field, writing transcribed text representative of the dictated speech to the first field, and writing the transcribed text to other fields having the same descriptor in each of the other selected plurality of documents.

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