1. A method of providing a first communication device with a textual representation of a voice message transmitted from a second communication device, the method comprising: detecting that the first communication device is operating in a silent mode in which the first communication device is switched on but wherein calls are directly routed to a user's messaging system; in response to said detection, prompting a user of the second communication device to input a voice message; converting the input voice message to phonemes; accessing a dictionary of words and their corresponding phonemes to identify, where present, a word which corresponds to a group of the phonemes; for each phoneme not recognized as part of a word in the dictionary, representing the phoneme as a representative character; and automatically transmitting a textual representation of the converted voice message to the first communication device, the representation including characters based on the phonemes and words identified in the dictionary that correspond to a group of the phonemes.
1. A method of providing a first communication device with a textual representation of a voice message transmitted from a second communication device, the method comprising: detecting that the first communication device is operating in a silent mode in which the first communication device is switched on but wherein calls are directly routed to a user's messaging system; in response to said detection, prompting a user of the second communication device to input a voice message; converting the input voice message to phonemes; accessing a dictionary of words and their corresponding phonemes to identify, where present, a word which corresponds to a group of the phonemes; for each phoneme not recognized as part of a word in the dictionary, representing the phoneme as a representative character; and automatically transmitting a textual representation of the converted voice message to the first communication device, the representation including characters based on the phonemes and words identified in the dictionary that correspond to a group of the phonemes. 9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmitting of the textual representation of the voice message to the first communication device includes wirelessly transmitting the textual representation to the first communication device.