1. A mobile station, comprising: a message input configured to receive a compact text representation of a voice message and an identifier associated with the text representation, wherein the voice message belongs to a message class of a plurality of message classes, wherein the compact text representation includes an abbreviation selected from an abbreviation library associated with the message class to which the voice message belongs, and wherein an extent to which the voice message is abbreviated is based on network capacity; and a display configured to display the compact text representation.
6. The mobile station of claim 1 , further comprising a memory configured to store the compact text representation.