Patent ID: 8473277

Claim:
An interactive electronic communications process for use in a translation station or other places, comprising: providing a central processing unit (CPU) selected from the group consisting of a computer, laptop, desktop computer, portable computer, microprocessor, computer system, iPad, tablet computer, wireless computer, wired computer, netbook, electronic communications device, portable networking device, internet communications device, mobile phone, flip phone, camera phone, clamshell device, radio telephone, cellular phone, smart phone, tablet phone, portable media player (PMP), personal digital assistant (PDA), wireless e-mail device, handheld electronic device, mobile electronic device, and combinations of any of the preceding; electronically recognizing a person's language from a person's conversations selected from the group consisting of voice, speech, voice message, on-line conversations, off-line conversations, verbal communications, discussions, conferences, oral responses, replies, electronic communications, and sound; electronically comparing the person's language to a host language in the CPU; electronically translating the person's language into the host language in the CPU if the person's language and host language are not the same; electronically transmitting audible communications in the person's language from the CPU to the person, the audible communications selected from the group consisting of inquiries, electronically synchronized speech, questions, interviews, interrogations, sounds, speech, words, dialog, discussions, menu driven communications, electronics, interactive verbal communications, and combination thereof; and providing an audit trail by printing said electronic translations and said electronic communications in both the host language and the person's language on a printer hard wired or operatively connected by wireless to the CPU.