Systems and methods for conversation enhancement
This invention description details systems and methods for improving human conversations by enhancing conversation participants' ability to: —Distill out and record core ideas of conversations. —Classify and prioritize these key concepts. —Recollect commitments and issues and take appropriate action. —Analyze and uncover new insight from the linkage of these ideas with those from other conversations.
1. A computer programs executing from non-transitory media, for facilitating the highlighting of conversations comprising:
digitizing and recording the conversations;
storing the conversations and user identified conversation segments for later review;
transcribing the user identified conversation segments, of the recorded conversations into text;
storing the transcribed conversation segments and identification data, in association with the conversations;
searching for previously recorded conversations based on key words or phrases in the titles, participants, notes, bookmarks, dates, times of the conversations as well as the segments of transcribed text associated with those conversations; and,
providing resultant conversations with common attributes for user review by enumerating conversations based on the results of key word searches.
2. The programs of claim 1 wherein portions of the conversation are selectively not recorded to address privacy and legality requirements.
3. The programs of claim 1 further comprising playing back earlier identified segments of the conversation to at least one user while the conversation is still in progress.
4. The programs of claim 1 wherein at least one of monitoring and identifying participants in the live conversation interact via a web browser or computer software client application.
5. The programs of claim 1 further comprising forwarding and sharing access to previously recorded conversations with other participants and guests.