Providing translations encoded within embedded digital information

• US 7,406,414 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2003
• Issued: 07/29/2008
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Hudspeth; David R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Neway; Samuel G
• Application Number:
  US10/736,390
• Publication Number:
  US 20050131709A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,688 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 704/235
• 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 method of providing a translation within a voice stream comprising:

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 within the voice stream 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 method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting the resulting speech signal.

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

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving the voice stream including the translated text; and

decoding the translated text.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising presenting a representation of the translated text.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising playing an audible representation of the received speech signal.

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