GR20150100331A - Integrated system for real-time translation sound flow transmission - Google Patents

Abstract

Novelty: integrated system designed for the real-time transmission of translation sound flow is disclosed. Purpose: to transmit in real time the translation sound flow in lectures, seminars etc by using devices such as smartphones or tablets, hands-free set of earphones with microphone and a subsystem (fig,.1.1) liable to send and receive the translated sound flow (fig.1.1), which subsystem issupplied gratis by the website of the company for allowing the reception in real time and in the mother language the translated lecture of the speaker (fig.1.2) as well as the participation of the attendants with questions and comments. Preconditions: the central sound-flow management subsystem (fig.1.4) is installed to a portable or stable computer at the lecture venue which is covered with wireless network (WLAN) (fig.1.5); the subsystem meant for the reception/sending of the translated sound flow is installed to smartphone or tablet of the participants (fig.1.1) while the subsystem which is designed for the reception and sending of the foreign language sound flow and the sending of the translated sound flow is installed to the smartphone or tablet of the interpreters (fig.1.3).

Description

DESCRIPTION

INTEGRATED AUDIO STREAM TRANSFER SYSTEM TRANSLATION INTO

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The present invention relates to an integrated infrastructure provision system for transferring real-time translation audio streams of events, such as presentations, seminars, etc. using translators and smartphones. Attendees can, using their smartphone or tablet, handsfree and the subsystems of the present invention, which can be downloaded free of charge to their device from the company's website, listen to the real-time translation provided by a translator in their own language of the speaker and participate with questions or comments.

The systems currently provided and implemented include expensive and cumbersome audio equipment and specially designed spaces for translators. This results on the one hand in the maintenance of equipment that is usually old and on the other hand in the impossibility of supplying and using it in smaller events such as events, seminars, presentations, meetings, councils of two people or more, etc. in which case the prohibition of their holding only in specially designed rooms, which raises the cost of the event and in some cases forces the organizers, due to cost or the lack of a suitable space with the expensive translation equipment, to make rough solutions of translating a speaker using a translator who translates into a single language in alternation with the speaker.

The integrated real-time audio translation streaming system comes to provide a solution to the above issues of using cumbersome, expensive equipment and limiting the organization of multilingual events to specially configured rooms.

The prerequisites are:

Central audio stream management subsystem installed on a laptop/stationary PC at the venue (Figure 1.4).

Event space coverage with a wireless network (WLAN) (Figure 1.5).

Internet access (required only for remote translation in cases where the translator is remote and/or there are participants who will attend the event remotely).

The Subsystem for sending/receiving audio streams of the present invention installed on a smartphone or tablet (required for translators (Figure 1.3), participants (Figure 1.1) and speaker (Figure 1.2)).

How It Works:

The Audio Stream Send/Receive Subsystem when installed on a smartphone or tablet, allows speech sound to be captured from the device's microphone or the owner's handsfree and sent via the wireless WLAN network (Figure 1.5) to the Central Stream Management Subsystem sound (Figure 1.4). At the same time, the audio stream sending/receiving subsystem receives via the wireless WLAN network (Figure 1.5) the selected translated audio stream which is broadcast over the wireless network by the central audio stream management Subsystem.

In more detail, figure 1 shows the mapping of audio streams. In the example there are two streams: the speaker's audio stream which is a foreign language (Figure 1.7) and the translated audio stream to the audience (Figure 1.6).

The foreign language speaker speaks into the microphone of his device on which the Audio Streaming Send/Receive Subsystem is installed and running, which undertakes to transfer his foreign language audio stream via the wireless WLAN network (Figure 1.5) to the Central Audio Stream Management Subsystem.

The Subsystem of central management of audio streams undertakes to transfer through the wireless WLAN network (Figure 1.5) the foreign language audio stream to the subsystem of sending/receiving audio streams (Figure 1.3) which is installed and running on the translator's device.

The translator listens to the speaker's foreign language audio stream from his handsfree headset and pronounces the translation in real time into his handsfree microphone. This translated audio stream is taken over by the sending/receiving audio stream subsystem (Figure 1.3) which is installed and running on the translator's device, to transfer via wireless WLAN network (Figure 1.5) to the central audio stream management Subsystem (Figure 1.4).

The translator has previously selected in the audio stream sending/receiving subsystem (Figure 1.3) installed and running on his device, the language he will translate into. If the text of the speech to be translated is available in electronic form, it can be displayed on the translator's smartphone/tablet screen.

The Central Management Subsystem of the Real-time Translation Audio Streaming System (Figure 1.4), runs in the background WebRTC two-way audio streaming servers equal to the translated languages as well as a WebRTC two-way audio streaming server for the speaker. Each streaming audio server broadcasts to the wireless network (Figure 1.5), an audio stream in the language from the corresponding translator (Figure 1.6).

Attendees have the audio stream sending/receiving subsystem (Figure 1.1) installed on their smartphone/tablet. The function of this subsystem is to receive the translated audio stream over a wireless network and transmit it to the listener through their handsfree headset. Upon entering the venue, they connect to the wireless network (Figure 1.5) and through the audio stream sending/receiving subsystem (Figure 1.1) they enter the participation code given to them and select the language in which they wish to listen to the translation . The audio stream sending/receiving subsystem (Figure 1.1) informs them that they are connected and enters a "Waiting" state. Just before the speaker starts his speech (Figure 1.2), the attendees (Figure 1.1) are informed by a sound signal on their handsfree headset and a visual notification on their smartphone/tablet screen. Each participant (Figure 1.1) listens to the speech translation (Figure 1.6) through his handsfree headset.

Each participant can speak into the microphone of his handsfree and it will be translated simultaneously to all participants-users of the subsystem sending/receiving audio streams (Figure 1.1) of the present invention and of course to the speaker. It can request the reason through the send/receive audio streams subsystem (Figure 1.1). When the coordinator of the event (e.g. the speaker) gives him the floor, he will be informed by a sound signal on his handsfree headset and a visual notification on the screen of his smartphone/tablet. Since each user/participant has a unique participation code assigned to his/her details and registers this code in the audio stream sending/receiving subsystem (Figure 1.1) before the speech starts, the audio streaming sending/receiving subsystem (Figure 1.1) displays the his details on the smartphone/tablet screen of all participants during his question/comment.

The audio streaming sending/receiving subsystem (Figure 1.1) of the present invention also has the ability, if allowed by the event organizer, to record everything the user hears to an audio file on their smartphone/tablet.

Claims (1)

Integrated infrastructure provision system for delivering real-time translation audio streams to the attending participants (Figure 1.1) in a multilingual event such as an event, a seminar, a presentation, a meeting, a council characterized by being composed of a combination of of the following subsystems: a) subsystem for two-way transfer of the foreign language audio installed on a smartphone/tablet device owned by the speaker (Figure 1.2) via a wireless WLAN network (Figure 1.5) in b) subsystem for central management of audio streams (Figure 1.4) installed on a portable/stationary PC at the venue which receives via a wireless network (Figure 1.5) and undertakes via the wireless network (Figure 1.5) to transfer it to the c) two-way audio stream transfer subsystem installed on the translator's smartphone/tablet device (Figure 1.3) through which the translator listens to the foreign language audio stream (Figure 1.7) from the central audio stream management subsystem and transfers via WLAN wireless network ( Figure 1.5) the translated audio spoken by the translator (Figure 1.6) in the Central Audio Stream Management Subsystem (Figure 1.4) and d) audio stream sending/receiving subsystem installed on a smartphone/tablet device owned by the audience (Figure 1.1) which receives via WLAN wireless network (Figure 1.5) the translated audio stream from the central audio stream management subsystem (Figure 1.4) and plays through their device to the listeners present (Figure 1.1).