International Business Machines Corporation

Steve Raspoet

Brian Reginald Heasman

Christopher Von Koschembahr

Steve Groeger

Benoît Löscher

Dave Draper

Beno&icirc;t Loscher

Methods for associating multi-lingual audio recordings with visual objects in a presentation system accessed by the Internet network wherein a plurality of visual objects such as charts or slides controlled by a third party in a server can be accessed by any user of the network. Each visual object being associated with an audio recording in any language selected amongst several predetermined languages. In an example embodiment, the method comprises the steps of calling the third party server by the user in charge of the audio recording associated with a visual object via the Public Switched Network, prompting the user on his telephone to enter his user ID; and transmitting by the keypad of the telephone the user ID including a first part defining a first language to be used for recording the recording, whereby displaying the visual object will be automatically synchronized with the audio recording.

Associating multi-lingual audio recordings with objects in Internet presentation

The present invention provides methods, apparatus and systems for defining variables to be used in a multi-lingual presentation system accessed by the Internet network wherein a plurality of visual objects such as charts and/or slides controlled by a third party in a server can be accessed by any user of the Internet network having a workstation. In an example embodiment, visual objects are each associated with an audio recording in any language selected amongst several predetermined languages. This method generally includes creating a control file having variables defining all the parameters of a presentation requested by a user of the Internet network. The variables are defined in the control file previously to the presentation.

Defining variables used in a multi-lingual internet presentation

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