METHOD TO AID TRANSCRIBING A DICTATED TO WRITTEN STRUCTURED REPORT

A method for assisting the transformation of a dictated, into a structured and written, report within a specialized field. The method starts with using automated speed recognition to produce a preliminary textual representation, which it then transforms into a simplified and normalized input sequence, which it copies and then transforms the copy by replacing words with tokens appropriate to the class of word as known, rare, or reducible, thereby creating a tokenized input sequence. The method then identifies and removes any preamble from the narrative text and restores punctuation, before restoring for each token within the tokenized input sequence its separable individual and original word and thus producing punctuated narrative text for processing into the written and structured report.