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System and method for providing a textual representation of an audio message to a mobile device

  • US 8,204,748 B2
  • Filed: 05/02/2006
  • Issued: 06/19/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2006
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of providing a first communication device with a textual representation of a voice message transmitted from a second communication device, the method comprising:

  • 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 a user of the second communication device to input a voice message;

    converting the input voice message to phonemes;

    accessing a dictionary of words and their corresponding phonemes to identify, where present, a word which corresponds to a group of the phonemes;

    for each 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 representation including characters based on the phonemes and words identified in the dictionary that correspond to a group of the phonemes.

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