Patent ID: 6292675
Filing Date: 2001-09-18
Classification: H04B,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
A wireless telephone system for use with a plurality of mobile telephone instruments operated by voice dialing and using voice communication to communicate through a switched telephone network with other telephone terminals comprising:a platform for interfacing the plurality of mobile telephone instruments to receive voice signal representations originating from individual mobile telephone instruments;a voice translator for converting signals representative of spoken numerals to keypad representations of the spoken numerals;a control unit for alternately indicating a state for either keypad or vocal communication for the individual telephone instruments;a switching structure controlled by the control unit for alternately routing voice signal representations originating from individual mobile telephone instruments to the switched telephone network untranslated or through the voice translator for communication; anda detector coupled to the platform for detecting specific voice signal representations from the mobile telephone units to control the control unit whereby a mobile telephone unit may communicate through the switched telephone network in either voice or keypad signals using speech.