Patent ID: 8549569

Claim:
A method of presenting alternative audio content related to an audio/visual content segment, the method comprising: receiving into a media content receiver the audio/visual content segment, wherein the audio/visual content segment comprises primary visual content and primary audio content; receiving a request to present the alternative audio content for the audio/visual content segment, wherein the primary audio content is in a first language and the alternative audio content is in a second language different from the first language; selecting at least one spoken word in the primary audio content, wherein the selected at least one spoken word is at a known location in the alternative audio content and is synchronized with a location of the primary visual content; generating text representing spoken words of the primary audio content using speech recognition, wherein the selected at least one spoken word is included in the text representing spoken words of the primary audio content; translating the text representing spoken words in the first language of the primary audio content into text in the second language using text-to-text conversion, wherein a translation of the selected at least one spoken word is included in the translated text in the second language; generating the alternative audio content based on the translated text in the second language using voice synthesis; replacing the primary audio content with the alternative audio content to generate a revised audio/visual content segment; synchronizing the alternative audio content to the primary visual content based on a location of the translated selected at least one spoken word in the alternative audio content and the location of the primary visual content that was synchronized with the selected at least one spoken word of the primary audio content; and transferring the revised audio/visual content segment for presentation to a user.