Abstract: A mobile communications device includes a network interface for communicating over a wide-area network, an input/output interface for communicating over a PAN and a display. The communication device also includes one or more processors for executing machine-executable instructions and one or more machine-readable storage media for storing the machine-executable instructions. The instructions, when executed by the one more processors, implement a voice proximity component, a speech-to-text component and a user interface. The voice proximity component is configured to select a first user's voice from among a plurality of user voices. The first user voice belongs to a user who is in closest proximity to the mobile communication device. The speech-to-text component is configured to convert to text in real-time speech received from the first user but not the other users. The user interface is arranged for displaying the text on the display as it received over the PAN from the other mobile communication devices.