Translating telephone
First Claim
1. A system for providing practical multilingual linguistic translation via a public telephone exchange, said system comprising:
- voice recognition means for converting an electrical signal resulting from speech into a telephone into a first digital signal;
visual display means for displaying as visual text a received signal including dynamic memory capable of holding i.e. storing said digital signal;
error identification means for identifying a portion of the visual text displayed on said visual display device;
correction means for substituting a supplementary digital signal resulting from conversion of speech into said telephone by said voice recognition means following identification of an error on said visual display device;
transmission switching means for sending a second digital signal held in memory by said visual display means over a public telephone exchange line;
translation means for linguistic translation by software resident in a computer capable of translating a digital signal resulting from said voice recognition means inclusive of said second digital signal held in said dynamic memory included in said visual display means from a first digital language into a second language and transmitting a resultant third digital signal over a public telephone exchange;
operable connections between;
said telephone and said voice recognition means, said voice recognition means and said visual display means, said visual display means and said transmission switching means, said transmission switching means and said translation means, said translation means and a public telephone exchange;
whereby speech into a telephone operably connected to said voice recognition means operably connected to said visual display means is converted into a first digital signal and displayed as visual text, a portion of said text maybe identified as erroneous and correction effected with said supplementary digital signal, the second digital signal held in dynamic memory included in said visual display means maybe approved with said transmission switching means and translated by said translation means into a third digital signal in a second language transmitted over and receivable from a public telephone exchange.
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Abstract
Speech into a telephone is converted from an analog to a digital signal using voice recognition and the output shown as text on a visual display. An error may be identified and a supplementary phrase substituted by speech in correction. Closing of a transmit switch sends the digital signal to a computer having linguistic translation software which translates the message into a second language. The resultant linguistically translated digital signal is converted to analog using speech synthesis and sent via a public exchange telephone line to a receiving user who requires only a conventional telephone to receive the translated message and may respond in the second language. The response is converted to a digital signal using voice recognition and translated into the original language by the linguistic translation software. The linguistically translated response is converted into an analog signal with speech synthesis and heard in the original language by the original transmitting user. Each user may have a graphic display device and the ability to correct errors in voice recognition, translation, or speech synthesis by identifying the same upon the graphic display device which may have a pressure sensitive screen for error identification and for closing the transmit switch. A practical system for addressing the difficulties arising from voice recognition, translation and speech synthesis is provided.
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45 Claims
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1. A system for providing practical multilingual linguistic translation via a public telephone exchange, said system comprising:
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voice recognition means for converting an electrical signal resulting from speech into a telephone into a first digital signal;
visual display means for displaying as visual text a received signal including dynamic memory capable of holding i.e. storing said digital signal;
error identification means for identifying a portion of the visual text displayed on said visual display device;
correction means for substituting a supplementary digital signal resulting from conversion of speech into said telephone by said voice recognition means following identification of an error on said visual display device;
transmission switching means for sending a second digital signal held in memory by said visual display means over a public telephone exchange line;
translation means for linguistic translation by software resident in a computer capable of translating a digital signal resulting from said voice recognition means inclusive of said second digital signal held in said dynamic memory included in said visual display means from a first digital language into a second language and transmitting a resultant third digital signal over a public telephone exchange;
operable connections between;
said telephone and said voice recognition means, said voice recognition means and said visual display means, said visual display means and said transmission switching means, said transmission switching means and said translation means, said translation means and a public telephone exchange;
whereby speech into a telephone operably connected to said voice recognition means operably connected to said visual display means is converted into a first digital signal and displayed as visual text, a portion of said text maybe identified as erroneous and correction effected with said supplementary digital signal, the second digital signal held in dynamic memory included in said visual display means maybe approved with said transmission switching means and translated by said translation means into a third digital signal in a second language transmitted over and receivable from a public telephone exchange. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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