DICTATION-TRANSCRIPTION METHOD AND SYSTEM

"DICTATION-TRANSCRIPTION METHOD AND SYSTEM" 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. In the transcribing of the dictated material, the system and method provide for the selective transfer of the audio circuit through which the dictated material is being transcribed from the dictated material to an instruction with respect to the dictated material when a signal is heard indicating that there are instructions concerning the dictated material on the recording medium.