Method and apparatus for enhanced telecommunication interface
A telecommunications system including a telephone including a calling party identification receiver and a peripheral device transceiver; and a headset configured to communication with the telephone via the peripheral device transceiver and configured to deliver calling party identification information to a user as audio information.
1 . A telecommunications system, comprising:
a telephone including a calling party identification receiver and a peripheral device transceiver;
a headset configured to communication with the telephone via the peripheral device transceiver and configured to deliver calling party identification information to a user as audio information.
2 . A telecommunications system in accordance with claim 1 , said peripheral device transceiver comprising a Bluetooth-compatible transceiver.
3 . A telecommunications system in accordance with claim 1 , said telephone further including a text-to-speech engine configured to convert calling party identification information from text to speech and transmit speech calling party identification information to the headset.
4 . A telecommunications system in accordance with claim 1 , said telephone further configured to transmit text calling party identification information to the headset.
5 . A telecommunications system in accordance with claim 4 , said headset further including a text-to-speech engine configured to convert text calling party identification information from text to speech.
6 . A telecommunications system in accordance with claim 1 , further including an address book at said telephone, said telephone configured to identify a name corresponding to a received calling party identification telephone number and provide said name as said calling party identification information.
7 . A telecommunications system in accordance with claim 1 , further including an address book at said telephone, said headset configured to identify a name corresponding to a received calling party identification telephone number and receive said name as said calling party identification information.
8 . A telecommunications system in accordance with claim 1 , said telephone comprising a cellular telephone.
9 . A telecommunications method, comprising:
receiving text-based calling party identification information at a telephone;
converting said text-based calling party identification information to speech; and
delivering calling party identification information as speech to a remote headset associated with the telephone.
10 . A telecommunications method in accordance with claim 9 , said converting including transmitting the text-based calling party identification information to the headset and performing a text-to-speech conversion at said headset.
11 . A telecommunications method in accordance with claim 9 , said converting including converting the text-based calling party identification to speech at the telephone and transmitting the speech-converted calling party identification information to the headset.
12 . A telecommunications method in accordance with claim 9 , said headset comprising a Bluetooth-compatible headset.
13 . A telecommunications method in accordance with claim 9 , further including accessing an address book for a name corresponding to a number received as said text-based calling party identification information.
14 . A telecommunications method in accordance with claim 13 , said accessing an address book for a name corresponding to a number received as said text-based calling party identification information including said headset accessing the telephone for the address book.
15 . A telecommunications method in accordance with claim 13 , said accessing an address book for a name corresponding to a number received as said text-based calling party identification information including said telephone accessing a telephone address book.
16 . A telecommunications system including a cellular telephone and a Bluetooth compatible headset, said cellular telephone including a calling party identification unit configured to determine a calling party number, wherein the cellular telephone is configured to provide calling party identification information to the Bluetooth-compatible headset for audio delivery.
17 . A telecommunications system in accordance with claim 16 , wherein the cellular telephone is configured to convert text-based calling party identification information to speech prior to delivery to the headset.
18 . A telecommunications system in accordance with claim 16 , wherein the cellular telephone is configured to provide text-based calling party identification information to the headset and the headset is configured to convert the text to speech prior to delivery to the headset.
19 . A telecommunications system in accordance with claim 16 , further including an address book, wherein the headset is configured to access the address book for a name corresponding to a number received as calling party identification information.
20 . A telecommunications system in accordance with claim 16 , further including an address book, wherein the cellular telephone is configured to access the address book for a name corresponding to a number received as calling party identification information.