Web Conference Virtual Environment Language Translation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Attendees in web conferences with different native languages from the presenter face difficulties in understanding the presentation due to lack of effective multi-language support, leading to time-consuming and often inadequate translations by the presenter.
Innovation Solution
A web conference system that detects attendees' native languages and creates a virtual environment with a native language pack to translate the presenter's screen sharing into the attendees' preferred language, providing real-time translation of dynamic content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the presenter translates materials to other languages ahead of time, then attendees can understand the presentation better, but the translation process is very time consuming and the presenter may not be proficient in translating
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a language pack as an intermediary component that handles translation automatically. The language pack detects the attendee's preferred language and translates the presentation content in real-time, eliminating the need for the presenter to manually translate materials beforehand.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service translation by automatically detecting the attendee's language preference and applying the appropriate language pack without requiring the presenter's intervention. The translation process becomes autonomous, handled by the system rather than the presenter.
2Productivity
If the presenter presents materials in their native language, then the presentation can be delivered efficiently, but attendees from other countries may have difficulty understanding
Solution Approach 1:
The language pack provides multi-functionality by supporting multiple languages within a single presentation system. It detects the attendee's preferred language and automatically switches the translation output accordingly, allowing the same presentation to be accessible to attendees from different linguistic backgrounds without requiring separate presentation versions.
3Ease of operation
If the system provides real-time translation of dynamic content, then attendees can follow the presentation easily, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The language pack performs preliminary action by pre-loading multiple language translation resources and detecting the attendee's language preference before the presentation begins. This setup happens in advance, so during the actual presentation, the system can quickly translate dynamic content without requiring complex real-time processing decisions.
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AI summary
A method, system and computer program product for enabling attendees of a web conference to view materials of the web conference in their native language. When the conference server determines that the preferred native language of the attendee differs from the preferred native language of the presenter of the web conference, the conference server creates a virtual environment that is a clone of a host environment of the presenter that runs a native language pack of the preferred native language of the attendee. Upon the presenter starting the web conference, the screen shot shared by the presenter to the attendees is captured from the host environment of the presenter and then translated into the preferred native language of the attendee using the native language pack of the attendee's virtual environment. The translated screen shot is then sent to the attendee in the attendee's preferred native language from the virtual environment.