Patent ID: 7228277

Claim:
A mobile communications terminal comprising: a voice pattern registration means for storing voice patterns in a memory and registering the voice patterns that have been stored in the memory with a plurality of contact data, said plurality of contact data comprising a plurality of types of contact data, wherein for each type of contact data, a voice pattern stored in the memory is registered with a corresponding contact data item independent of other contact data types; a data type designation means for designating the type of contact data to be selected for communication; a speech recognition means for retrieving a voice pattern among the voice patterns stored in the memory that matches or nearly matches voice data obtained from a user; and a memory search processing means for selecting a contact data item of the type designated by the data type designation means that corresponds to the voice pattern retrieved by the speech recognition means, wherein the voice pattern registration means registers a different voice pattern to each contact data item of the plurality of types of contact data separately.