Real-time VoIP Language Translation via Selective Broadcast
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems lack the capability to facilitate real-time communication between participants speaking different languages, leading to ineffective communication and increased project risks and costs in globally dispersed teams.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that enables real-time communication by establishing an n-way bidirectional automatic voice translation channel between VoIP servers, determining the preferred language of participants, and allocating translation resources to ensure real-time processing and routing requirements are met, allowing for simultaneous multi-participant voice translation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional VoIP systems are used for international communication, then communication can only occur in languages that both parties understand, but this creates a language barrier that increases project risks and costs in globally dispersed teams
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an automatic voice translation system as an intermediary between participants speaking different languages. The system captures voice input from a first participant, translates it to the language of a second participant, and delivers the translated output in real-time, enabling effective communication without requiring participants to share a common language.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically changes the language parameter of the communication stream based on the participants' language profiles. When a communication session is initiated, the system identifies the language parameters of all participants and automatically adjusts the translation parameters to ensure each participant receives content in their preferred language.
2Productivity
If voice translation processing is performed in real-time for multiple participants, then communication between different language speakers is enabled, but this requires complex resource allocation and processing at multiple locations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the translation processing function across multiple servers located at different geographic positions. Each server handles translation for specific participants based on their language requirements, allowing the system to scale and distribute processing loads efficiently while maintaining real-time translation capability for multiple language pairs simultaneously.
3Loss of time
If translation resources are allocated to meet real-time processing requirements, then communication tempo is maintained, but this requires sophisticated resource management and location-based processing decisions
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing translation channels and allocating processing resources before the actual communication begins. When a communication session is initiated, the system proactively sets up the translation infrastructure, identifies required language pairs, and assigns processing tasks to appropriate servers in advance, ensuring minimal delay during the actual communication.
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method and system of enabling concurrent real-time multi-language communication between multiple participants using a selective broadcast protocol, the method including receiving at a first server a real-time communication from a first participant, the real-time communication being addressed to a second participant constructed in a first spoken language. A preferred spoken language of receipt of real-time communication is identified by the second participant. A determination is made whether the preferred spoken language of receipt is different than that of the first spoken language of the real-time communication. The real-time communication from the first spoken language is translated and delivered to the preferred spoken language of receipt of the second participant to create a translated real-time communication whenever the preferred spoken language is different than the first spoken language and forwarded without translation when the preferred spoken language of the second participant is the same as the preferred spoken language of the first participant.