Selection of a user language on purely acoustically controlled telephone

A device, comprising:

• a speech recognition unit recognizing a designation of a user language of the device to be set, from among designations of settable user languages of the device that can be recognized by said speech recognition unit, each designation of each settable user language being in the settable user language;
• and
• a language setting unit setting a user interface language of the device to the user language recognized by said speech recognition unit.

A method for setting a user language of a device, comprising:

• recognizing, by speech recognition in the device, a designation of a user language spoken in the user language from among designations of settable user languages that can be recognized in the settable user languages by the device;
• and
• setting the user language, obtained by said recognizing, as a user interface language of the device.