ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,060, issued on June 17.
"Intuitive dictation" was invented by Orlin Todorov (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method that can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method for intuitive dictation without or with minimal use of other input devices besides a microphone, and without or with minimal use of keywords. The method includes receiving speech audio data from a microphone and in response to receiving the audio data, determining automatically whether a transcription of it is intended as a substitution for a fragment of existing text or as new additional text. The method furth...