Open environment for real-time multilingual communication

摘要

An open environment for a real-time multilingual communication environment for text-based and voice conversations in a variety of different languages and/or for multilingual machine-generated or machine-carried text exchanges in a variety of languages. The users send their messages in their own spoken languages and the recipients receive in real-time the messages translated into their spoken languages. The open environment provides links to a variety of the online real-time translation services available on the Internet or on other network and controls real-time translation by selecting the best translation services for translations, which are specific to the theme of the communication session and to the number of languages needed for translation in the session. The users are communicating in different natural languages with the real-time translation to the language designated by each user. An automated and/or manual selection of the on-line language translation services is provided and the internal quality rating for each translation service is built and maintained to provide the best quality of the translation for multilingual communication. A variety of on-line translation services can be used in the communication session to assure the best quality of translation. The translation services can be switched during the session.