Two Way Automatic Universal Transcription Telephone

Abstract

A two-way automatic transcription telephone, which can operate over analog and/or digital networks and, during a telephone call, is able to automatically transcribe in real time incoming voice signals and/or outgoing voice signals of the telephone into associated text that can be displayed on a display of the telephone. The incoming and outgoing voice signals are transcribed based on settings received by the telephone via its input keyboard or touch screen input.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A Transcription Telephone comprising:
 at least one central processing unit;   a voice circuit; and   at least one transcriber system controlled by the central processing unit to automatically transcribe in real time voice signals being received and/or being transmitted by the voice circuit into associated text based on one or more parameters received by the central processing unit.   
     
     
         2 . The Transcription Telephone of  claim 1  where the transcription of voice signals occurs during an established telephone call involving the transcription telephone. 
     
     
         3 . The Transcription Telephone of  claim 1  where the voice circuit comprises a voice port providing access to incoming and outgoing voice signals of an established telephone call. 
     
     
         4 . The Transcription Telephone of  claim 1  where the voice circuit separately routes incoming and outgoing voice signals to electrically isolate them from each other. 
     
     
         5 . The Transcription Telephone of  claim 1  where the central processing unit comprises a first central processing unit for processing incoming voice signals and a second central processing unit for processing outgoing voice signals during an established telephone call. 
     
     
         6 . The Transcription Telephone of  claim 5  where the first central processing unit controls a first transcriber for transcribing outgoing voice signals into associated text displayed on a first display. 
     
     
         7 . The Transcription Telephone of  claim 6  where the first display is a touch screen display. 
     
     
         8 . The transcription Telephone of  claim 5  where the second central processing unit controls a second transcriber for transcribing incoming voice signals into associated text displayed on a second display. 
     
     
         9 . The Transcription Telephone of  claim 8  where the second display is a touch screen display. 
     
     
         10 . The Transcription Telephone of  claim 1  where the central processing unit causes the voice circuit to transmit a pre-stored message to a telephone of a calling party upon establishment of a telephone call between the transcription telephone and the telephone of the calling party. 
     
     
         11 . The Transcription Telephone of  claim 1  where the central processing unit causes the voice circuit to transmit a pre-stored message to a telephone of a called party upon establishment of a telephone call between the transcription telephone and the telephone of the called party. 
     
     
         12 . The Transcription Telephone of  claim 1  where the voice circuit detects DTMF signals of a telephone number dialed on the transcription telephone where such telephone, number is stored and is associated with a stored transcript of an ensuing established telephone call. 
     
     
         13 . The Transcription Telephone of  claim 1  further comprising a keyboard interface coupled to the central processing unit allowing a corded keyboard to be connected to the transcription telephone. 
     
     
         14 . The Transcription Telephone of  claim 1  further comprising a keyboard interface coupled to the central processing unit allowing a cordless keyboard to be wirelessly connected to the transcription telephone. 
     
     
         15 . The Transcription Telephone of  claim 1  where the transcriber comprises one or more algorithms stored in memory and whose operation is controlled by the central processing unit where instructions associated with the one or more algorithms are executed by the central processing unit to transcribe incoming voice signals and/or outgoing voice signals into associated text. 
     
     
         16 . The Transcription Telephone of  claim 1  where the one or more received parameters determine which type of voice signals are to be transcribed into text. 
     
     
         17 . The Transcription Telephone of  claim 1  where the voice circuit comprises an interface circuit for each type of communication network to which the transcription telephone can be connected and where each such interface is capable of converting outgoing voice signals to a format compliant with a proper destination communication network and each such interface is capable of detecting incoming voice signals for processing by the central processing unit and the transcriber. 
     
     
         18 . The Transcription Telephone of  claim 1  where received voice signals of a user can be independently transcribed based on various commands received b the at least one central processing unit. 
     
     
         19 . The Transcription Telephone of  claim 18  where a transcript resulting from an independent transcription is stored locally within the Transcription Telephone or remotely in a cloud.