TEXT EDITOR FOR USE WITH SPEECH INPUTAbstractA text editor is connected to a speech recognizing unitfor editing preferably spoken input text using adisplay screen. For each text word (including digits),and each punctuation mark that can be recognized and iscontained in a dictionary, a token is stored forholding information on character count, capitalization,left and right concatenation of the respective item,and for providing fields for context conditions. Foreach segment or entity recognized spoken text, arespective character string and associated token istransferred to storage in the editor to allow automaticformatting and correct displaying or printing of thetext, including spaces and capitalization whererequired. Tokens are updated during editing to reflectmodifications such as in the beginning of a sentence orin concatenation. Switching to spelling mode isprovided for entering single spelled characters incases where a word cannot be recognized or wherespelling is desired.
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