Appeal No. 96-2992
Application 08/200,049
predetermined set of questions and phrases, upon the selection of
individual questions and phrases. Translations of these
questions and phrases are prerecorded by human speakers into a
number of languages, and an interviewer/user, in cooperation with
the interviewee, chooses into which of these languages the
translations are to be made. The interviewer chooses, in the
interviewer's language, the questions to be asked, indicates his
choice to the device and the device speaks the corresponding
questions in the chosen language for the interviewee.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A translating machine to enable an operator who is
fluent in one language to interview a respondent using a
predetermined list of available sentences, which may include
questions, where the respondent speaks any one of a plurality of
available languages other than the language in which the operator
is fluent, and where the respondent need not be literate in any
language, comprising:
A. Advance storage means for storage of spoken
translations in a form which is convertible into an audio
waveform of each of the available sentences in each of the
available languages after those translations are spoken and
recorded in advance by speakers fluent in each of those
languages,
B. Language selection means for selecting which of the
available languages is to be used with the respondent,
C. List storage means for storing the predetermined list
of available sentences as alphanumeric code,
D. Second selection means for selecting individual desired
sentences from the stored predetermined list and displaying them
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