A live-presentation utterance-capture system includes a microphone
accessible to a speaker at a live presentation; a voice-recognition
mechanism configured linguistically to interpret a vocal utterance
received at the microphone from the speaker; a database mechanism
configured to store the linguistic interpretation of the vocal utterance
in a visual form; and, optionally, a presentation mechanism configured to
present to an audience at the live presentation a visual representation
of the vocal utterance in the visual form. The live lecture notes capture
and presentation method includes storing a visual presentation in a
memory; converting the visual presentation to a slide show; presenting
the slide show to a live audience; vocally augmenting the slide show
using a microphone and voice recognition mechanism and storing a
representation of the vocal augmentation in a memory; converting the
stored augmentation to slide-show-compatible visual presentation that
annotates the slide show; and storing the annotated slide show including
the representation of the vocal augmentation in a memory. Live
audiovisual presentation point capture/display apparatus includes a
computer equipped with a microphone; a memory associated with the
computer; software instructions residing in the memory and executing in
the computer, the software instructions configured to recognize and store
in text form an utterance received from a live speaker a the microphone;
and a display mechanism configured to display to a live audience the
stored text representing the utterance.