9. A system comprising: a processor; and a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, result in the processor performing: receiving a voice message intended as a personal message from a sender for a recipient user, the voice message being in a first language; determining that a preferred spoken language of the recipient user differs from the first language to yield a determination; based on the determination, presenting to the recipient user the voice message in the first language with an option to translate the voice message into the preferred spoken language; receiving, from the recipient user, an interaction with the option to yield an instruction to translate the voice message into the preferred spoken language; based on the instruction, translating, via a processor and based on a retrieval code provided by the recipient user, the voice message into the preferred spoken language, to yield a translated voice message; providing the translated voice message to the recipient user; receiving a reply message from the recipient user; and generating, via the processor, a reply to the voice message by translating the reply message into the first language.
9. A system comprising: a processor; and a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, result in the processor performing: receiving a voice message intended as a personal message from a sender for a recipient user, the voice message being in a first language; determining that a preferred spoken language of the recipient user differs from the first language to yield a determination; based on the determination, presenting to the recipient user the voice message in the first language with an option to translate the voice message into the preferred spoken language; receiving, from the recipient user, an interaction with the option to yield an instruction to translate the voice message into the preferred spoken language; based on the instruction, translating, via a processor and based on a retrieval code provided by the recipient user, the voice message into the preferred spoken language, to yield a translated voice message; providing the translated voice message to the recipient user; receiving a reply message from the recipient user; and generating, via the processor, a reply to the voice message by translating the reply message into the first language. 13. The system of claim 9 , the computer-readable storage medium having additional instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, result in operations comprising receiving a selection from the recipient user of a type of speech pattern to be used in the translated voice message.