Abstract: A dictation-transcription method and system in which dictated material and instructions concerning the dictated material for use during the transcribing of the dictated material are separately recorded on a recording medium along with indexing signals which include indexing signals identifying the location on the recording medium of the separately recorded instructions concerning dictated material. The recording system and method permit the recording of instructions at any location on the recording medium relative to the dictated material including a location along the length of a recording medium which is the same as the location of the dictated material to which an instruction relates without obliterating any of the dictated material, while at the same time preventing the inadvertent placing of the recording system in a recording mode of operation following the recording of an instruction which would cause dictated material to be inadvertently obliterated.

Abstract: A method and system for priority transcribing of a particular unit of dictation in a dictation-transcription system in which units of dictated material may be simultaneously recorded on, and transcribed from, a single continuous recording medium. The portion of the continuous recording medium from which dictated material has been transcribed is transferred to one of a plurality of bins or to one of a plurality of locations within a single bin from which it is withdrawn to be used for the recording of subsequent dictated material, and the system and method disclosed allows a priority unit of dictation in the sequence of units of dictation recorded on the recording medium to be selected from among other units of dictation in the sequence for transcribing without making any untranscribed unit of dictation in the sequence available for the recording of additional dictation which would obliterate any such untranscribed units of dictation.

Abstract: A dictation-transcription method and system in which dictated material and instructions concerning the dictated material for use during the transcribing of the dictated material are separately recorded on a recording medium along with indexing signals which include indexing signals identifying the location on the recording medium of the separately recorded instructions concerning dictated material. The recording system and method permit the recording of instructions at any location on the recording medium relative to the dictated material including a location along the length of a recording medium which is the same as the location of the dictated material to which an instruction relates without obliterating any of the dictated material, while at the same time preventing the inadvertent placing of the recording system in a recording mode of operation following the recording of an instruction which would cause dictated material to be inadvertently obliterated.

Abstract: A method and system for priority transcribing of a particular unit of dictation in a dictation-transcription system in which units of dictated material may be simultaneously recorded on, and transcribed from, a single continuous recording medium. The portion of the continuous recording medium from which dictated material has been transcribed is transferred to one of a plurality of bins or to one of a plurality of locations within a single bin from which it is withdrawn to be used for the recording of subsequent dictated material, and the system and method disclosed allows a priority unit of dictation in the sequence of units of dictation recorded on the recording medium to be selected from among other units of dictation in the sequence for transcribing without making any untranscribed unit of dictation in the sequence available for the recording of additional dictation which would obliterate any such untranscribed units of dictation.