The communication itself is considered as a multimodal interactive process binding speech with other modalities. In this contribution
some results of the project MobilTel (Mobile Multimodal Telecommunications System) are presented. It has provided a research
framework resulting in a develop-ment of mobile terminal (PDA) based multimodal interface, enabling user to obtain information
from internet by multimodal way through wireless telecommunication network. The MobilTel communicator is a speech centric
multimodal system with speech interaction capabilities in Slovak language supplemented with graphical modalities. The graphical
modalities are pen – touch screen interaction, keyboard, and display on which the information is more user friendly presented,
and provides hyperlink and scrolling menu availability. The architecture of the MobilTel communicator and methods of interaction
between PDA and MobilTel communicator are described. The graphical examples of services that enable users to obtain information
about weather or information about train connection are also presented.
Keywords multimodal - pocket PC - telecommunication - services - spoken language - human computer interaction