Abstract: A multi-language user-interface (MUI) for use in a mobile electronic device accesses language-dependent information. The MUI system includes a display, an operating system, a localized data store, and an application. The MUI system is used in displaying information in a selected language on the mobile electronic device. The needed language-dependent information may be localized or include a portion that is localized. When the application needs to display localized language-dependent information (e.g., resource strings, settings stored in a registry, or file names), this information is obtained from the localized data store, which also contains language-dependent for all of the languages supported by the mobile electronic device.

Abstract: In the prior art, DRAMs (Dynamic Random Access Memories) are used to store and reproduce digital data, or ARAMs (Audio Random Access Memories) are used to store and reproduce speech. The components are expensive and lose their stored data if the power fails. The present device and method uses electrically erasable, programmable read-only-memories, the so-called EEPROMs (Electrically Erasable and Programmable Read Only Memories), in a block structure for mass storage applications with control software. A digital signal processor (DSP) is directly connected to the read-only-memory (EEProm), which is partitioned into segments. Software drivers in the digital signal processor (DSP) enable the segment by segment writing and reading between the digital signal processor and the read-only-memory.

Abstract: In so-called Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) coding methods for speech signal transmission, a codebook look-up method is used which is very processor-intensive. To conserve power, during speech pauses not only the transmitter but also the speech coder is turned off substantially completely. Consequently, when the speech signal resumes there is a transition interval before the filters of the speech coder become adjusted to full operation. For this reason, according to the invention, the filters are not turned off during speech pauses but are directly driven by codebook excitation vectors which correspond to the speech signal then being processed. As a result, there is a smoother and hardly perceptible transition between background noise and the speech signal when the latter resumes. An artificial background noise is produced in the receiver during speech pauses.