27. A system for dynamic adjustment of audio prompts in response to a users interaction modality with a communications device having a multimodal interface comprising a speech interface for accessing a speech recognizer and another interface, comprising: means for determining the mode of user input modality and selecting a corresponding one of a foreground state and a background state of the speech interface.
34. A system according to claim 27 comprising means for selecting an appropriate foreground state or background state of the speech interface based on a sequence of previous user inputs.