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Multilingual Asynchronous Communications Of Speech Messages Recorded In Digital Media Files

  • US 20090271178A1
  • Filed: 04/24/2008
  • Published: 10/29/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for multilingual asynchronous communications, the method comprising:

  • recording a speech message in a digital media file;

    transmitting, from a sender multilingual communications application to a recipient multilingual communications application, the speech message in the digital media file;

    converting, by the recipient multilingual communications application, the recorded speech message to text;

    identifying, by the recipient multilingual communications application, that the text of the recorded speech message is in a source language that is not a predetermined target language;

    translating, by the recipient multilingual communications application, the text in the source language to translated text in the target language;

    converting, by the recipient multilingual communications application, the translated text to synthesized speech in the target language;

    recording, by the recipient multilingual communications application, the synthesized speech in the target language in a digital media file; and

    playing the media file thereby rendering the synthesized speech.

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