VARIABLE SPEED AUDIO PLAYBACK IN SPEECH RECOGNITION PROOFREADER

A method for inserting a delay between the playback of individual words or phrases by a speech recognition system, comprises the steps of: (A) waiting for a playback command; (B) measuring a delay upon occurrence of the playback command; (C) initiating playback of only one of the individual words or phrases upon expiration of the delay; (D) waiting for a subsequent playback command; and, (E) upon occurrence of the subsequent playback command, repeating the steps (B), (C) and (D) for playing subsequent ones of the individual words or phrases, one at a time. The method can further comprise the steps of: (F) comparing a user requested delay to a predetermined delay; (G) changing from one at a time playback to continuous playback whenever the user requested delay is not greater than the predetermined delay; and, (H) changing from continuous playback to one at a time playback whenever the user requested delay is greater than the predetermined delay.