Portable hands-free digital voice recording and transcription device

Claim 1

A portable hands-free voice recording and transcription device comprising: a portable housing attachable to a user's body; a voice transmission means removably coupled with said portable housing and securable to a user's body for hands-free operation; a recording and playback means for processing analog voice signals from said transmission means wherein said recording and playback means includes a disk drive received within said housing; a floppy disk removably received within said disk drive; means for converting an analog signal received from said voice transmission means to a digital signal and storing said digital signal onto said storage medium; means for reading said digitally stored signal, converting said signal to an analog, output signal and transmitting said signal to an external speech recognition software to convert said analog output to text; a voice activation means in communication with said recording means for enabling said recording means upon said voice activation means detecting a user's voice; a security means for preventing unauthorized users from accessing said playback and recording means, said security means including a plurality of keypad members, each keypad member having discrete identifying indicia thereon which are depressed in a select, predetermined sequence; a battery in communication with said keypad members, said recording means and said playback means; a disabling circuit in communication with said keypad members and said battery for delivering power to said recording and playback means upon a said keypad members being depressed in the select, predetermined sequence.