Patent ID: 7069222

Claim:
A method for delivering a consecutive translation from a source language to a target language via a simultaneous mode in a courtroom, the method comprising the steps of: a human translator hearing words spoken in a source language; said human translator utilizing one or more remote transmitter and a digital recording device having a wireless receiver by: transmitting the words in the source language from the at least one remote transmitter to the digital recording device; said human translator recording said words spoken in said source language utilizing the digital recording device, the digital recording device receiving and recording the words in the digital recording device; wherein said recording device further comprises means for playing back said words spoken in said source language substantially instantaneously; said human translator utilizing said recording device to play back said words in said source language to said human translator; and said human translator simultaneously interpreting and translating said words in said source language into a target language while they are being played back; wherein the step of simultaneously interpreting and translating comprises said human translator verbally delivering a consecutive translation in real time relative to the step of hearing the words spoken in the source language.