2. A device according to claim 1 wherein, in the foreground state audio prompts and full speech based error recovery are implemented.
1. A communications device having a multimodal user interface offering a user a choice of input modalities, comprising a speech interface for accessing a speech recognizer, and a graphical user interface, and comprising means for dynamically switching between a foreground state of a speech interface and a background state of a speech interface in accordance with a users input modality.