System and method for telephony simultaneous translation teleconference

Abstract

In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a system for carrying out a simultaneous translation teleconference, the system comprising: a teleconferencing room; a scheduler, for managing a schedule of a human simultaneous translator and of the teleconferencing room; and a user interface between a user and the scheduler, for ordering a teleconference between the human translator and participants in the teleconferencing room; thereby allowing carrying out a simultaneous translation teleconference between the participants and the human translator. The user interface may be an Internet menu, an audio menu, a video menu and so on. According to one embodiment of the invention, the user interface is embodied as a code dialed with a requested telephone number, thereby informing the system of the telephone company thereof to identify a request for scheduling a teleconferencing room for carrying out an STT. Preferably, the code is associated with at least one language.

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