Abstract: Offered is a system and devices that can provide additional functionality to device-to-device messaging. The system may translate message content from one language into other languages depending on the language preferences of the operating users. The system can also enable a user to respond to a message using a graphical user interface (GUI) element and, in response to the selection of that element, enable additional functionality. The additional functionality may include, for example, offering an originator of the message menu options to select different message content (such as different text corresponding to alternate speech recognition results if the message was originally spoken), the option to select a different translation of the original message content (through a back translation operation) or other options.

Abstract: Systems for facilitating acquisition of a language by a user receive initial user input representing a phrase in a first language. The phrase is translated to a second language then parsed to generate constituent data indicative of one or more groups of related words within the phrase. The constituents may constitute comprehensible linguistic inputs for communication to a user when the initial phrase is not a comprehensible input. Output data is generated to output the constituents to the user. Based on the relationships between the words, the characteristics of the second language, or user data indicative of the user's previous comprehension of constituents, the amplitude, frequency, output rate, or other audible characteristic of output may be modified to emphasize or deemphasize portions of the constituents.