1. A telecommunication device capable of receiving multiple types of incoming messages comprising, in combination: a communication interface for receiving incoming messages in the form of voice, text, data or multimedia messages; a communication processor coupled to the communication interface for receiving and processing each received message; a memory coupled to the communication processor for storing processed messages; means for entering a desired action for each type of incoming message including immediate or delayed output thereof and including unchanged or format changed output thereof; a voice to text converter disposed between the communication processor and the memory to convert incoming voice messages to text when such desired action has been entered; a text to voice converter disposed between the communication processor and the memory to convert incoming text messages to voice when such desired action has been entered; and a plurality of output devices coupled to the communications processor, the memory and the entering means to output the processed message based on user input wherein the output may be immediate or delayed in time and may be in the same or different format from the message originally received.