Patent Document ID: 9830317
Application ID: 14314004

Base Claim:
1. A method of providing a portable, real time voice translation for a child of pre-school or elementary school age, the method comprising: making a translation system available to a child of pre-school or elementary school age, the system having a content state selector on the front of the device that includes simplified pictorial representations of a plurality of translatable content for easy selection by children; a processor and a memory, the memory having a computer program that is operable in executing the following functions: accessing a multilanguage database embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium including a plurality of phrase templates associated with a respective plurality of phrases; selecting a source language from a plurality of source languages and a destination language from a plurality of destination languages; inputting a source phrase; transmitting the source phrase (i) to a speech recognition module embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for converting the spoken source phrase into a recognized source phrase; (ii) a translation engine embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for translating the recognized source phrase in the selected source language into a destination phrase in a destination language selected from multiple languages, wherein the plurality of phrases in the multilanguage database include the destination phrase; (iii) a template look-up engine embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for finding the phrase template associated with the destination phrase from among the multiple languages; and, outputting the spoken translation in the selected destination language; and, a graphical user interface on the front of the device that includes a text display of the source phrase and the destination phrase; wherein, the translation system having a total time between the input of the source phrase and output of the destination phrase that is adjustable from a real-time translation to a slow and more easily assimilated translation pace for ease of use by the child of preschool or elementary school age, the real-time pace being no slower than 0.010 seconds.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the executing includes selecting an operational state selected from the group consisting of vocabulary content, source language options, destination language options, numeric skills options, translation output pace, and microphone on/off.