Patent 7636426 was granted and assigned to Siemens Communications on December, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A telecommunications device includes a voice dialer and a text-to-speech engine. The text-to-speech engine is configured to convert at least a portion of a user contact list information to speech and the voice dialer is configured to receive an audio input and perform a voice recognition, comparing said audio input to converted user contact list information.