Patent ID: 7546143

Claim:
A system, comprising: (a) a multi-channel mobile telephone, wherein the multi-channel mobile telephone supports a plurality of channels; (b) a processing device for storing an internal representation of a phrase element which can be predefined, recorded as needed, or synthetically generated on demand; and, (c) a scanning device for reading a first code associated with the phrase element and for reading a second code associated with a first channel of the plurality of channels; wherein the processing device transforms a user's silent input selection of the first code associated with the phrase element into an audible output utterance only over the first channel associated with said second code while enabling the user to verbally communicate a second audible output utterance over a second channel of the plurality of channels with no audible feedback into the first channel; wherein audible input from the first channel is mixed with audible input from the second channel, or a graphic representation of audio input on the first channel is visually displayed to the user while audio input on the second channel is communicated audibly to the user.