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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 27, 1999
Paul S. Meche, Richardson, TX (US);
Nokia Mobile Phones Limited, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
A method is provided for enabling a user of a cellular radiotelephone ( ) having a keypad ( ) to assign selected speech utterances to keys of the keypad . The method comprises the steps of: (a) prompting the user to depress at least one of the keys ; (b) in response to the user depressing at least one of the keys , prompting the user to utter speech into a user-interface ( ) of the radiotelephone ( ) for assigning the speech to the depressed at least one key ; and (c) in response to the user uttering speech into the user-interface ( ), storing the uttered speech in a memory ( ) for identifying the depressed at least one key with the uttered speech. Also in accordance with the invention, the user may dial a telephone number by simply uttering, into the user-interface ( ), speech identifying those ones of the keys which correspond to alpha-numeric characters of the telephone number.