Telephone communication with silent response feature

摘要

A telephone call may be received or made by the user of telephony-enabled apparatus (20) in circumstances, such as during a meeting, where spoken responses by the user to what the other party to the call has said are unacceptable. A telephony method and arrangement are disclosed which permits a user to use silent input to the telephony-enabled apparatus (20) in order to generate a response to the other party to the call. Response generation is facilitated by enabling the user to effect a selection from options derived from speech recognition and semantic analysis of the other party's input, with this selection then being used in forming the response.