Patent ID: 8340640

Claim:
A method for facilitating the transcription of telephone calls to and from a handheld wireless telecommunication device, the method comprising: displaying a first user interface in a display device, the first user interface including one or more user-selectable options, the one or more user-selectable options including at least two of the following user-selectable options: a first user-selectable option that causes audio content of all incoming telephone calls to the handheld wireless telecommunication device from at least one user-selected contact and all outgoing telephone calls from the handheld wireless telecommunication device to at least one user-selected contact to be automatically sent to a transcription service; a second user-selectable option that causes audio content of all incoming telephone calls to the handheld wireless telecommunication device and all outgoing telephone calls from the handheld wireless telecommunication device to be automatically sent to a transcription service; and a third user-selectable option that configures the handheld wireless telecommunication device to, in response to a first telephone call in which the handheld wireless telecommunication device participated being completed, automatically display a second user interface configured to prompt for user input that indicates a request for a transcription of audio content of the first telephone call.