2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the network transceiver is configured to receive an indication of one of speech and text as a desired output at the second communication terminal, and wherein the language translation unit comprises: a text output unit configured to generate the translated signal representing text in the second human language in response to the indication of text as the desired output; and a speech synthesizing unit configured to generate the translated signal representing speech in the second human language in response to the indication of speech as the desired output.
1. A language translation device, comprising: a network transceiver configured to provide communication between first and second communication terminals; a language recognition unit configured to receive a signal representing speech in a first human language from the first communication terminal and map the signal to machine-readable intermediate data that is indicative of sounds in the first human language, wherein the signal representing speech in the first human language comprises features extracted according to a parametric model that is different than that used by the first communication terminal when operating in a non-language translation mode, and wherein the language recognition unit is configured to provide a request to the first communication terminal to use the parametric model to generate the signal representing speech in the first human language to provide automatic capability negotiation between the language translation device and the first communication terminal; and a language translation unit configured to translate the machine-readable intermediate data indicative of sounds in the first human language to further machine-readable intermediate data indicative of sounds in a second human language, to generate a translated signal representing speech and/or text in a second human language, which is different from the first human language, in response to the further intermediate data and provide the translated signal to the second communication terminal, the speech and/or text represented by the translated signal having a meaning corresponding to that of the speech represented by the received signal.