His role was to convert speech to text. Cody's special skill was his good sense of timing. He’d know how much time it would take a person to read the text being spoken. He could mumble in many languages, and the more of them he learned, the easier it was becoming for him to acquire a new one. He was capable of translating one film into many languages all by him. Most people even appreciated the accidental shifts of actions caused by strong utterances with hidden meanings.