Arrangement for creating and using a phonetic-alphabet representation of a name of a party to a call

摘要

The application relates to audio caller identification. Audio caller identification relates to providing caller identification to the called party in spoken form via text-to-speech pronunciation of the calling party's name which is particularly important for visually-impaired users. However the conversion of the calling party's name from text form to a spoken form by a text-to-speech conversion often results in mispronunciation of the calling party's name. This problem is solved by the caller himself creates and edits a phonetic-alphabet representation of his name. The phonetic representation is conveyed to the called party as "caller-identification" information by messages that set up a call between the parties. The phonetic representation of the name is displayed to the second party, converted to speech, and/or converted to an alphabet of a language of the second party and then displayed to the second party.