Acknowledgments

Thanks to Courtney Roes of GEM-eDOT and to Vaughan Hagberg who steered me in the right direction.

Courtney (who came up with the diagram) uses this to do translation in his multi-language church in Germany (German, French, Italian)

It will work with any set of languages.

There can be an encoding delay of between 15-45 seconds but apparently its still workable.

Email me (John Edmiston)

Wireless Broadcasting To Mobile Phones (Simultaneous Translation)

This arrangement was designed for a conference requiring simultaneous translation into 3 different languages, with the listeners being able to hear the translation on their mobile phones by logging onto a local wireless network.

Of course it may be easily adapted for any number of languages.

End Users

The end user uses their mobile phone to login to a local "captive" wireless network (similar to those in airports). They turn on wireless on their phones, scan for networks, then use the designated network which might be named something like "conference-translation" .

After logging into this network, a web page would pop up with links to each of the different translation streams e.g. French, Spanish, English, German, or whatever the conference or church is using. After clicking on the link they will get the MP3 stream on their phone.

Instructions

Diagram