Patent US 6,058,239

A system and method employing computer speech recognition of users' vocal tag utterances to create a catalog (1) of the contents of user-recorded audio-video media such as VCR tapes. Numeric labels are affixed to each tape for identification. A vocal tag (24) is spoken into a microphone (5), associated with each recorded program and stored in a database of tape contents within a VCR (13). The matching of a new, reference utterance (7) with those stored in the database provides a means to review the contents of all tapes containing the selected program.