Patent Document ID: 8204182
Application ID: 11613179

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising acts of: establishing a real-time communication session between a text exchange client and a speech enabled application; identifying a translation table that includes a plurality of entries, each entry including a text exchange item and a corresponding conversational translation item; receiving a text exchange message that was entered into a text exchange client; detecting at least one text exchange item in the text exchange message, which corresponds to an entry included in the translation table; in the text exchange message, substituting a corresponding conversational translation item for each detected text exchange item; sending the substitute message to a text input interface of a voice server to be processed; receiving, from the speech enabled application, an automatic output message responsive to the text entered into the text exchange client; and sending output text related to the automatic output message to the text exchange client, wherein the substituting act occurs in a manner transparent to the text exchange client and to the speech enabled application.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the speech enabled application is a VoiceXML based application that lacks an inherent text exchange capability.