Method and receiver for providing audio translation data on demand

Receiver for providing audio or subtitle translation data on demand, the receiver including:

• means for receiving video data and first identification information corresponding to said video data;
• means for detecting a user-performed selection of a preferred language;
• means for providing second identification information corresponding to said preferred language;
• means for transmitting, e.g. via Internet, third identification information derived from said first and second identification information to a server for requesting, based on said third identification information, a desired audio or subtitle translation data set corresponding to said video data;
• means for receiving, e.g. via Internet, said selected audio or subtitle translation data set;
• means for reproducing, at least partly, data of said requested audio or subtitle translation data set temporally synchronised with said video data.

Method for providing audio or subtitle translation data on demand, including the steps:

• receiving, e.g. via Internet, identification information requested by a user, wherein said identification information corresponds to a preferred language and to video data that are originally accompanied by audio or subtitle data in a language different from said preferred language;
• storing or generating audio or subtitle translation data sets assigned to different languages for related video data, wherein each of said audio or subtitle translation data sets includes a language translation of original language audio or subtitle data related to specific ones of said video data;
• selecting, upon receiving said identification information, an audio or subtitle translation data set, wherein the selected audio or subtitle translation data set represents a language translation of said original language audio or subtitle data corresponding to said preferred language,
• transmitting, e.g. via Internet, said selected audio or subtitle translation data set for providing it to a receiver of said user.