Patent ID: 9277051
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G06F,G10L,H04M

Claim Text:
1. A server apparatus in communication with a plurality of terminal devices configured to facilitate speech communication between a first speaker and at least one second speaker via a translation task, the server apparatus comprising: an instruction receiving unit configured to receive an instruction for performing the translation task; a recording unit configured to record verbal speech in a first language of the first speaker during the speech communication; a speech recognizing unit configured to generate text data in the first language based on the verbal speech recorded by the recording unit in accordance with the instruction for performing the translation task; a text translating unit configured to translate the text data in the first language generated by the speech recognizing unit into a second language of the second speaker and generate translated text data in the second language, wherein the second language is different from the first language; a speech synthesizing unit configured to convert the translated text data in the second language generated by the text translating unit into translated speech data in the second language, the translated speech data voicable by the terminal devices as synthesized sounds; and a providing unit configured to provide the text data in the first language, the translated text data in the second language, and the speech data in the second language to each of the terminal devices.