PROVIDING TRANSLATIONS ENCODED WITHIN EMBEDDED DIGITAL INFORMATION

• US 20080255825A1
• Filed: 06/24/2008
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Creamer, Thomas E., Moore, Victor S., Jaiswal, Peeyush
• Granted Patent: US 7,627,471 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/3
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/018 Audio watermarking, i.e. embedding inaudible data in the audio signal
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/167 Audio streaming, i.e. formatting and decoding of an encoded audio signal representation into a data stream for transmission or storage purposes

Abstract

A method of providing a translation within a voice stream can include receiving a speech signal in a first language, determining text from the speech signal, translating the text to a second and different language, and encoding the translated text within the speech signal.

Claims

1. A system for providing a translation within a voice stream comprising:

means for receiving a speech signal in a first language;

means for determining text from the speech signal;

means for translating the textual representation to a second and different language;

means for adding time stamp information to each of a predetermined number of portions of the received speech signal and to each of a predetermined number of portions of the translated text;

means for identifying within each portion of the speech signal in the voice stream one or more inaudible portions; and

means for embedding each portion of the translated text in place of the identified inaudible portions, irrespective of whether the added time stamp information for the embedded text and a speech signal portion associated with the identified portion are synchronized.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising means for transmitting the resulting speech signal.

3. The system of claim 1, said means for embedding step further comprising including the translated text within the voice stream as digital information.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

means for receiving the voice stream including the translated text; and

means for decoding the translated text.

5. The system of claim 4, further comprising means for presenting a representation of the translated text.

6. The system of claim 5, further comprising means for playing an audible representation of the received speech signal in the first language.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the audible representation of the received speech signal is played substantially concurrently with the presentation of the translated text.

8. A computer-readable storage medium, having stored thereon a computer program having a plurality of code sections executable by a machine for causing the machine to perform the steps of:

receiving a speech signal for the voice stream in a first language;

determining text from the speech signal;

translating the text to a second and different language;

adding time stamp information to each of a predetermined number of portions of the received speech signal and to each of a predetermined number of portions of the translated text;

identifying within each portion of the speech signal in the voice stream one or more inaudible portions; and

embedding each portion of the translated text in place of the identified inaudible portions, irrespective of whether the added time stamp information for the embedded text and a speech signal portion associated with the identified portion are synchronized.

9. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, further comprising code sections for transmitting the resulting speech signal.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, said embedding step further comprising code sections for including the translated text within the voice stream as digital information.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, further comprising code sections for:

receiving the voice stream including the translated text; and

decoding the translated text.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, further comprising code sections for presenting a representation of the translated text.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, further comprising code sections for playing an audible representation of the received speech signal.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, further comprising code sections for playing the audible representation of the received speech signal substantially concurrently with the presentation of the translated text.