2. The method of claim 1 , wherein playing the second digital media file further comprises: storing the second digital media file on a digital audio player; and playing the second digital media file on the digital audio player thereby rendering the synthesized speech in the target language.
1. A method for multilingual asynchronous communications, the method comprising: receiving, by a recipient multilingual communications application of a recipient computing device, from a sender multilingual communications application of a sender computing device, a first speech message recorded in a first digital media file, wherein the first speech message is received via the sender multilingual communications application from a first user; converting, by the recipient multilingual communications application, the first speech message to a text representation of the first speech message; identifying, by the recipient multilingual communications application, that the text representation of the first speech message is in a source language that is not a predetermined target language; translating, by the recipient multilingual communications application in the recipient computing device of a second user, the text representation of the first speech message in the source language to a translated text representation of the first speech message in the target language, wherein the recipient multilingual communications application in the recipient computing device of the second user translates the text representation of the first speech message to the translated text representation of the first speech message in the target language based on the received first digital media file; converting, by the recipient multilingual communications application, the translated text representation of the first speech message to synthesized speech in the target language; recording, by the recipient multilingual communications application, the synthesized speech in the target language in a second digital media file; playing the second digital media file thereby rendering the synthesized speech to the second user; receiving, by the recipient multilingual communications application, from the second user, a second speech message in the target language comprising a response to the synthesized speech; and transmitting the second speech message to the sender multilingual communications application.