Abstract: An apparatus comprising a session file, session file editor, annotation window, concatenation software and training software. The session file includes one or more audio files and text associated with each audio file segment. The session file editor displays text and provides text selection capability and plays back audio. The annotation window operably associated with the session file editor supports user modification of the selected text, the annotation window saves modified text corresponding to the selected text from the session file editor and audio associated with the modified text. The concatenation software concatenates modified text and audio associated therewith for two or more instances of the selected text. The training software trains a speech user profile using a concatenated file formed by the concatenating software.

Abstract: Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide a speech editor for creating a second file have text segments synchronized with an audio file. The editor receives a text segment and a first file that has tag information lines associated with the text segment. Each tag information line has a portion of original text transcribed from the audio file and a corresponding audio length value. The editor stores the audio length of a current line in a new tag information line for the second file, determines whether the original text portion of the current line is found in the text segment, and if the original text portion of the current line is not found in the text segment, identifies a corrected text of the text segment and adjusts the audio length of the new tag information line of the second file to correspond to the corrected text.

Abstract: A method to creating a final text from an audio file comprising (a) transcribing the audio file into a transcribed text file using a speech recognition software; (b) loading a first widow with the transcribed text file; (c) loading a second window with a previously created text file; (d) comparing the transcribed text file and the previously created file to find differences between the text in the transcribed text file and the text in the previously created text file; (e) correcting the transcribed text file based upon the differences to create the final text. The method may also include searching for the previously created text file.

Abstract: An apparatus for collecting data from a plurality of diverse data sources, the diverse data sources generating input data selected from the group including text, audio, and graphics, the diverse data sources selected from the group including real-time and recorded, human and mechanically-generated audio, single-speaker and multispeaker, the apparatus comprising: means for dividing the input data into one or more data segments, the dividing means acting separately on the input data from each of the plurality of diverse data sources, each of the data segments being associated with at least one respective data buffer such that each of the respective data buffers would have the same number of segments given the same data; means for selective processing of the data segments within each of the respective data buffers; and means for distributing at least one of the respective data buffers such that the collected data associated therewith may be used for further processing.

Abstract: A method for locating an audio segment within an audio file comprising (i) providing a first transcribed text file associated with the audio file; (ii) providing a second transcribed text file associated with the audio file; (iii) receiving a user input defining a text segment corresponding to the audio segment to be located; (iv) searching for the text segment in the first transcribed text file; and (v) displaying only those occurrences of the text segment within the first transcribed text file that are also a match to occurrences of the text segment within the second transcribed text file.