Patent Document ID: 4882681
Application ID: 07092373

Base Claim:
1. A method for contemporaneous language translation at the site of the user and another party comprising the steps of: providing the user with a transmitter/receiver device; transmitting a convectional segment of the user's speech by a voice signal through said transmitter/receiver to a speech translation computer; translating the user's speech into a selected other spoken language form of the other party by said speech translation computer; broadcasting said translated speech; receiving back the translated speech by said transmitter/receiver; broadcasting in verbal form said translated speech to the other party for that other party to comprehend the translation of what the user had originally spoken in a different language; said transmitter/receiver receiving a conversational segment of the speech of the other party in the other party's foreign language; transmitting said foreign language over said transmitter/receiver to said speech translation computer; translating the other party'speech into the user's language; receiving back of said transmitter/receiver the translation of the other party's foreign language; and broadcasting in verbal form said translated foreign language to the user whereby the user can listen to the translation and carry on conversations with instantaneous translations at the site of the user and any other party.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 further including the step of: generating a selector frequency signal to be carried with said voice signal, such selected frequency to designate to said computer the language received and the language to which the received language is to be translated.