Patent ID: 7167544

Claim:
A telecommunications system with speech recognition, comprising: a multiplicity of telephone terminals; converters, coupled to at least some of said telephone terminals to provide digital/analog and analog/digital conversion and signal conditioning; channel-bundling and channel-splitting units coupled to said telephone terminals, via said converters when coupled thereto; and at least one switching office coupled to at least one of said channel-bundling and channel-splitting units and including a speech recognition device to analyze and monitor speaking speed in a voice signal received from a user via the at least one of said channel-bundling and channel-splitting units; a threshold device, coupled to said speech recognition device, to determine when the speaking speed is outside a predetermined range; and a speech synthesizing device, coupled to said threshold device, to generate an individually adapted notification in at least one of digital and analog form when the speaking speed is outside the predetermined range and to output the individually adapted notification via the at least one of said channel-bundling and channel-splitting units.