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US 7,406,414 B2Granted
Providing translations encoded within embedded digital information
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsThomas E. Creamer, Peeyush Jaiswal, Victor S. Moore
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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.
Claims7
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;
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- 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.
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