20. The teleconference system of claim 10 , wherein the teleconference session is a single teleconference session, and wherein two or more of the plurality of teleconference participants are speaking different languages.
10. A teleconferencing system, comprising: a teleconference management processor for managing a teleconference session between a plurality of teleconference participants, the teleconference management processor configured to: receive a first request from one of the plurality of teleconference participants for language translation services; generate a second request for the addition of a virtual participant processor to the teleconference session in response to receiving the first request; responsive to the second request, connect the virtual participant processor to the teleconference session; and deliver translated speech data received from the virtual participant processor to the respective teleconference participants; and the virtual participant processor, the virtual participant processor being configured to: intercept speech data from each of the teleconference participants; recognize a speech language of each of the teleconference participants; translate the intercepted speech data into the recognized speech language of each of the plurality of teleconference participants; and provide the translated speech data to the teleconference management processor.