Speech Recognition/Synthesis Cell Phone

We all know how frustrating it is to talk on a cell phone when reception is poor and your words get mangled.

Here is a simple solution: As soon as reception is so poor that your conversation partner starts to "break up", the phone automatically switches to low reception emergency mode.

A speech recognition program converts your words into text. The text is transmitted to your partner's phone, which has a speech synthesis program that converts it back into words.

The advantage: Text requires *a lot* less bandwith than sound, so this emergency mode should continue working even where reception is lousy, giving the caller enough time to walk to a spot with better reception without needing to stop the conversation.