TRANSLATING PHRASES FROM ONE LANGUAGE INTO ANOTHER USING AN ORDER-BASED SET OF DECLARATIVE RULES

摘要

Translating a phrase from one language into another using an order-based set of declarative rules is disclosed. Information to be communicated as sensory perceptible output is received. An ordered set of rules is applied to generate a representation that expresses the information in a manner that embodies applicable communication system rules of a target symbolic communication system in which the information is to be communicated. Output in the target language may be arrived at by speech synthesis, concatenating named audio files to produce grammatical speech.