Patent ID: 7392184

Claim:
A method of forming a pronunciation model for speech recognition in a telecommunications system comprising at least one portable electronic device and a server, the electronic device being configured to compare the user's speech information with pronunciation models comprising acoustic units and stored in the electronic device, the method comprising: transferring a character sequence from the electronic device to the server, comparing the character sequence with a language resource to determine the language of the character sequence in a language selector of the electronic device, selecting a text to phenome resource, stored in the server, according to the determined language; converting the character sequence in the server into at least one phoneme sequence in text format in accordance with the determined language; and transferring said at least one phoneme sequence in text format from the server to the electronic device; storing the phoneme sequence in association with the transferred character sequence in the electronic device; forming an audio model of the phoneme sequence at the electronic device; storing the audio model in the electronic device in association with the character sequence; and comparing received speech information with the stored phoneme sequence and if a match results, selecting the character sequence associated with the matching phoneme sequence.