Patent ID: 7752031

Claim:
A system for cadence management of translated multi-speaker conversations comprising: a pause relationship manager having a hardware function for executing a logical process, the hardware means comprising at least one hardware function selected from a group comprising a microprocessor and an integrated circuit; a demultiplexer portion of the pause relationship manager separating a multi-speaker audio stream into a plurality of single-speaker audio tracks, each track containing one or more first language audio snippets organized according to a timing relationship as related in said multi-speaker audio stream; a pause analyzer portion of the pause relationship manager generating a pause relationship model by determining time relationships between said single-speaker snippets, and assigning pause marker values denoting the each beginning and each ending of each mutual silence pause; a pause relationship manager portion of the pause relationship manager collecting a translated language audio track corresponding to each of said single-speaker tracks, and generating one or more pause relationship controls according to a transformation of said pause relationship model; a multiplexer portion of the pause relationship manager producing a multi-speaker audio output including said translated tracks in which said translated snippets are related in time according to said pause relationship controls.