Mobile speech-to-speech interpretation system

A method for interpreting from a first language to a second language, comprising the steps of:

• receiving an input speech utterance in a first language on a first mobile communication device;
• conditioning said input speech utterance;
• first transmitting said conditioned input speech utterance to a server;
• recognizing said first transmitted speech utterance to generate by said server a set of first recognition results;
• optimizing the one or more recognition results by rescoring word-recognition lattice results based on corresponding interpretation lattice results to generate a set of second recognition results;
• interpreting said set of second recognition results by generating by said server one or more interpretation results comprising abstract paraphrased specific concepts;
• translating said abstract paraphrased specific concepts into a form of a language-independent abstract interlingua;
• mapping the abstract paraphrased specific concepts from the language-independent interlingua to a second language in a first selected format;
• second transmitting said interpretation results in the first selected format to a second mobile communication device;
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• presenting said interpretation results in a second selected format on said second communication device.