Patent ID: 7359861

Claim:
A translation tool comprising a computer system in turn comprising: A processor for processing instructions and data; A set of at least one memory for the storage of instructions and data to be used by the processor; A means for making the memory accessible to the processor; At least one display; At least one input device for receiving input choices from a first person with a first language preference; At least one speaker for the playing of audio files corresponding to certain text choices presented on the at least one display in a first language corresponding to the first language preference, the audio flies stored in a form accessible to the computer system so that the audio files can be selectively played on the at least one speaker; A set of instructions stored in the at least one memory accessible to the processor; The set of instructions including instructions sufficient to initiate the delivery of certain images to the at least one display and to receive input from the at least one input device to obtain at least one type of context information about a second person and at least one type of context information about a third person; and The set of instructions including instructions sufficient for the computer system to receive a selection for a second language for the audio files so that the selection of a certain text string presented on the at least one display in the language of the first language preference causes the playing of a spoken audio file to be played on the at least one speaker where the spoken audio file is in the second language and the spoken audio file includes a context adjustment based on at least one type of previously obtained context information about the second person and at least one type of context information about the third person.