System and method for providing a textual representation of an audio message to a mobile device
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1. A method of providing a first communication device with a textual representation of a voice message input at a second communication device, the method comprising:
- automatically detecting that the first communication device is operating in a silent mode in which the first communication device is switched on but wherein calls are directly routed to a user'"'"'s messaging system;
in response to said detection, prompting input of a voice message at the second communication device;
automatically converting the voice message input at the second communication device to phonemes by;
(i) accessing a dictionary of words and their corresponding phonemes to identify, where present, a word which corresponds to a group of the phonemes;
(ii) for a phoneme not recognized as part of a word in the dictionary, representing the phoneme as a representative character; and
automatically transmitting a textual representation of the converted voice message to the first communication device, the textual representation including characters representative of at least some of the phonemes.
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Abstract
A textual representation of a voice message is provided to a communication device, such as a mobile phone, for example, when the mobile phone is operating in a silent mode. The voice message is input by a caller and the voice message converted to phonemes. A text representation of the voice message is transmitted to the mobile phone. The representation includes characters based on the phonemes with well known words being represented in an easily understood shorthand format.
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1. A method of providing a first communication device with a textual representation of a voice message input at a second communication device, the method comprising:
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automatically detecting that the first communication device is operating in a silent mode in which the first communication device is switched on but wherein calls are directly routed to a user'"'"'s messaging system; in response to said detection, prompting input of a voice message at the second communication device; automatically converting the voice message input at the second communication device to phonemes by; (i) accessing a dictionary of words and their corresponding phonemes to identify, where present, a word which corresponds to a group of the phonemes; (ii) for a phoneme not recognized as part of a word in the dictionary, representing the phoneme as a representative character; and automatically transmitting a textual representation of the converted voice message to the first communication device, the textual representation including characters representative of at least some of the phonemes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system for providing a first communication device with a textual representation of a voice message input at a second communication device comprising:
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a voice message conversion system which converts an input voice message input at the second communication device to phonemes and generates a textual representation of the input voice message, the textual representation including characters representative of at least some of the phonemes, wherein the voice message conversion system comprises a dictionary of words and their corresponding phonemes for identifying, where present, a word which corresponds to a group of the phonemes, and where absent, representative characters; and a switching center in communication with the voice message conversion system, which is capable of receiving and transmitting messages, the switching center receiving the input voice message from the second communication device and transmitting a message to the first communication device, the message comprising the textual representation generated by the voice message conversion system, the switching center detecting that the first communication device is operating in a silent mode and, in response to said detecting that the first communication device is operating in a silent mode, prompts a user of the second communication device to input the voice message for conversion by the voice message conversion system to the textual representation. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method of providing a first communication device with a textual representation of a voice message transmitted from a second communication device, comprising:
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detecting that the first communication device is operating in a silent mode; in response to said detection, prompting a user of the second communication device to input a voice message; converting the voice message input at the second communication device to phonemes, the phonemes being selected from a finite set of phonemes, accessing a dictionary of words to identify any words which correspond to a group of the phonemes in the voice message, the dictionary storing words along with their corresponding phonemes; for a phoneme not recognized as being a part of one of groups of phonemes that correspond to a word in the dictionary, representing the phoneme as a representative character; and transmitting a textual representation of the voice message to the first communication device, the representation including characters representative of at least some of the phonemes. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21)
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