VIRTUAL PARTICIPANT-BASED REAL-TIME TRANSLATION AND TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM FOR AUDIO AND VIDEO TELECONFERENCES

摘要

The present disclosure describes a teleconferencing system that may use a virtual participant processor to translate language content of the teleconference into each participant's spoken language without additional user inputs. The virtual participant processor may connect to the teleconference as do the other participants. The virtual participant processor may intercept all text or audio data that was previously exchanged between the participants may now be intercepted by the virtual participant processor. Upon obtaining a partial or complete language recognition result or making a language preference determination, the virtual participant processor may call a translation engine appropriate for each of the participants. The virtual participant processor may send the resulting translation to a teleconference management processor. The teleconference management processor may deliver the respective translated text or audio data to the appropriate participant.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
joining, by a first computing device associated with a first user, a video conference with a set of second computing devices associated with a set of second users, respectively; after joining the video conference, generating, by the first computing device, a translation request representing a request to translate at least a portion of audio during the video conference to a preferred language of the first user; outputting, from the first computing device, the translation request, wherein the output of the translation request causes a connection request to be transmitted to a virtual participant computing device, and wherein the receipt of the connection request causes the virtual participant computing device to join the video conference; and receiving and outputting, by the first computing device, translated audio representing a translation of the portion of the audio during the video conference from a source language to the preferred language of the first user, the translated audio having been generated by the video conference.