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Abstract

A central dictation and transcribing system including a plurality of dictate stations (16) and a plurality of transcribe stations (17) in which recorded dictation is recorded in the form of digitized samples. A plurality of selectively operable controls (38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46) are used to rearrange the reproduced order of dictation heard by the transcriber by inserting, deleting, and moving segments of previously recorded dictation. All final dictation heard by the transcriber is continuous and in an order determined by operation of the controls. The structure includes memory (11, 12) for storing the digitized samples and a map memory (40) for storing a plurality of address pairs (127, 128) indicative of when normal sequential reproduction of digitized samples from the main memory is to be altered. A predetermined jump code (98) is stored at each location in the main memory to indicate that a change of sequence is to be made from that address and reference to the map memory should be made. The samples to and from the dictate stations and transcribe stations are pipelined over data buses (20, 29) in a time division multiplex arrangement (60).

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