Patent US 8,965,759

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer programs for transfer of recorded digital voice memos to a computing system and processing of the transferred digital voice memos by the computing system or another computing system are disclosed. A recording device is configured to record a voice memo from a user and store the voice memo. The recording device is also configured to transfer the recorded voice memo to a computing system. The computing system is configured to translate the transferred voice memo into a computer-readable format and parse the translated voice memo. The computing system is also configured to determine a type of software application to which the voice memo pertains via a preamble, a keyword, or a keyphrase in the translated voice memo. The computing system is further configured to create an item in the determined software application based on the translated voice memo.