Patent ID: 6925438

Claim:
A method comprising: capturing speech in a first language being uttered by a person having a face; detecting alteration of at least a part of the face, other than a movement of a mouth, and correlating such alteration to specific words in the speech to provide detected alterations converting the speech into text; translating the text into a second language that is different from the first language to provide translated speech; rendering the translated speech audible to provide audiblized translated speech; while rendering the translated speech audible, substantially synchronously providing a display of at least an animated representation of the face wherein: the face has a mouth that moves synchronously with the audiblized translated speech; and the face has at least one other part that is altered synchronously with the detected alteration; such that the at least animated representation of the face presents a mouth that moves in substantial accord with the audiblized translated speech and at least one part of the face that is altered in substantive accord with facial alterations as evinced by the person when uttering the speech.