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7460652 VoiceXML and rule engine based switchboard for interactive voice response (IVR) services  
The present application discloses a call routing system and a method of communicating with a call originator. The call routing system includes a voice converted data module having an input to...
7286649 Telecommunications infrastructure for generating conversation utterances to a remote listener in response to a quiet selection  
A user to conducts a telephone conversation without speaking. It does this by moving the participant in the public situation to a quiet mode of communication (e.g., keyboard, buttons, touchscreen)....
6959071 Phone-call apparatus, phone-call method, communication control apparatus, communication control method, and program  
Disclosed herein are a phone-call apparatus, a phone-call method, a communication control apparatus, a communication control method, and a program. In a phone-integrated terminal, a CPU controls a...
6954517 Multiple service announcement method  
A method for providing multiple calling service announcements on a single circuit card within a telephone network. The method reduces the number of stored speech files necessary to generate...
6728343 User appliance with voice help guide  
A user appliance incorporating the invention includes a non-volatile memory for storing (i) a series of queries regarding operating problems that may be encountered in operating the user appliance;...
6625257 Message processing system, method for processing messages and computer readable medium  
A message processing device is adapted to obtain text data and read aloud the text data aloud by using a voice synthesizer. A loudspeaker device is connected to the message processing device to...
6570964 Technique for recognizing telephone numbers and other spoken information embedded in voice messages stored in a voice messaging system  
A technique for recognizing telephone numbers and other information embedded in voice messages stored in a telephone voice messaging system. A voice recognition system is coupled to the telephone...
6405171 Dynamically loadable phrase book libraries for spoken language grammars in an interactive system  
A system comprises a voice application with which a user interacts, and at least one dynamically-loadable phrase book library, separate from the voice application, that comprises, for each of a...
6393117 Telephoning method comprising novel subscriber service  
A telephoning method, intended to facilitate possibility to offer subscribers of a telephone network/telecommunication system a novel service for preferably incoming calls/communication. According...
6388560 Messaging terminal with voice notification  
A method for receiving and processing an incoming message in a wireless messaging terminal is disclosed. In particular, the method includes providing a receiver which receives the message and a...
6370238 System and method for improved user interface in prompting systems  
An improved prompting system for accessing specified functions. According to one embodiment, a particular user may identify himself to the system and thereafter preprogram one or more paths that...
6184950 Luminous structure for liquid crystal displays  
A LCD luminous structure comprises a LCD liquid crystal displaying plate which is connected with a circuit by a bus, a light guiding plate, a dispersing piece, etc., light emitting diodes or other...
6016336 Interactive voice response system with call trainable routing  
A voice response system that functions in a receiving telephone system and learns individual caller behavior. The voice response system stores the callers unique identifier and a menu option...
6011832 Multiple service announcement system and method  
A method for providing multiple calling service announcements on a single circuit card within a telephone network. The method reduces the number of stored speech files necessary to generate...
5995826 Methods for conditional tone responsive reconnection to directory assistance center  
A cellular telephone subscriber who wishes directory assistance services is connected in the conventional manner to an operator who identifies a destination telephone number desired by the...
5926524 Messaging system scratchpad facility  
An improved messaging system (100, 900) enables a message recipient to take notes electronically while retrieving messages, such as by electronically extracting and separately recording a portion...
5758323 System and Method for producing voice files for an automated concatenated voice system  
A method for producing a voice file for use in an automated concatenated voice system. The words and phrases to be used in the system are scripted in a staged script, and read by a voice talent....
5751790 Voice information service device and voice information service method  
When a request to record is received from an information provider by way of a telephone network, a storage area is secured for each information number of provided information, and index numbers...
5724406 Call processing system and method for providing a variety of messaging services  
A flexible, object-oriented call processor is employed in a wide range of messaging environments (e.g. voice messaging, facsimile mail, notification and electronic mail) to provide any number and...
5721537 Pager-recorder and methods  
A hand-held device contains a paging receiver and a microphone to accept dictation of messages. A common digital data store holds received transmissions and dictated messages.
5655006 Automated system and method for voice processing  
An automated method and system for voice processing is used with a plurality of voice mail boxes each of which is assigned to a corresponding one of a plurality of subscribers and is operative to...
5619554 Distributed voice system and method  
A distributed voice system and method provides voice scripting and voice messaging to a call processing system. According to this system and method, audio voice is recorded in frames and the frames...
5539809 Location specific messaging in a telecommunications network  
When one party places a long distance call to another party through a telephone network, there is a delay in completing the call after the calling party enters the telephone number of the called...
5530950 Audio data processing  
Audio data processing apparatus connectable to a telephone network, the apparatus comprising a device (50) to receive from the network and record an audio signal comprising a sequence of audio...
5434908 Greeting and schedule integration arrangement  
An arrangement (FIG. 4 ) that automatically generates and manages a subscriber's personal greeting for a voice message system (1000), based upon information contained in the subscriber's electronic...
5307059 Selective call receiver having customized voice alerts  
A selective call receiver comprises a receiver for receiving a signal, a processor for processing the received signal to detect an address code therein, a storage device for storing information...
5283731 Computer-based classified ad system and method  
A computerized classified ad system and method. The system comprises a data processor including means for creating an ad database comprising a plurality of ads, each ad containing text data...
5251251 Telecommunications network-based greeting card method and system  
A subscriber's personalized voice message to be played out to a recipient is recorded by a central facility over a telecommunications network. The subscriber selects a prerecorded message from a...
4866754 Automatic telephone answering machine utilizing voice synthesis  
An automatic telephone answering and recording device, wherein if an incoming call is received when an incoming message tape is full or an owner fails to set the telephone answering device to an...
4805204 Automatic telephone apparatus and set-up method therefor  
In an automatic telephone answering apparatus, an outgoing message tape is driven upon reception of an incoming call, and a first outgoing message and a specific signal are reproduced. When the...
4706270 Equipment for sending digitally pre-stored voice announcements to the subscribers connected to a telephone network  
The equipment consists of one or more voice units (U1 . . . Un) each connected to a certain number of independent lines (E1 . . . En) connected to a telephone network (RT). Each unit presents an...
4608460 Comprehensive automatic directory assistance apparatus and method thereof  
A comprehensive automatic directory assistance apparatus includes a means for receiving information from a caller via a specified number of DTMF signals, means for identifying another subscriber...
4581484 Audio-enhanced videotex system  
A system and apparatus for providing information exchange between a host computer facility and a remotely located user terminal. The host facility includes an audio memory under the control of a...
4545043 Announcement system message playback arrangement  
A telephone switching network is disclosed having an announcement system coupled to a toll switching center. A plurality of short phrases are recorded in corresponding sectors of a disc store and...
4439635 Message delivery system  
A message delivery system is described which includes a plurality of announce units, each of which includes means for storing a respective message segment. A controller activates selected ones of...
4352956 Multi-responder telephone intercept apparatus  
A multi-responder telephone apparatus includes a talking machine having a plurality of information tracks. Ten of those tracks contain zones for transmitting digits. An additional signalling track...
4328396 Total service telephone answering system  
A total service telephone answering system including answering machines, for carrying on a programmed telephone conversation with a respondent, having an interface with the telephone line, and a...
4320256 Verbally interactive telephone interrogation system with selectible variable decision tree  
An improved verbally interactive telephone interrogation system is provided in which a two-way telephone subscriber network, such as a Touch-Tone type two-way telephone subscriber network, is...
4072986 Message synthetizer  
A device for synthetizing a message in response to an interrogation signal, the message consisting of a number of separate digits, terms, etc. indicating the value and possibly other features of a...
4068099 Method of and apparatus for switching service information units in a TDM system  
Special services are switched to subscribers whose telephone sets are connectable to a time division multiplex (TDM) system. Each special service information unit is converted periodically into...
3876840 Automatic time-temperature-message announcing system  
An announcing system in which the time, temperature, and commercial weather message announcements are provided on a single mechanism with one record and the TTA system will operate in any spatial...
3794778 ANNOUNCEMENT APPARATUS HAVING INDEPENDENTLY VARIABLE MESSAGE SEGMENTS  
An announcing system for providing a family of recorded announcements through telephone central office equipment to one or more telephone subscriber lines. The weather segment of the announcement...
3632880 INFORMATION-ANNOUNCING SYSTEM  
An electronic announcing system for announcing the time at predetermined intervals, e.g., 10 seconds, wherein a digital clock is utilized with an audio storage drum in conjunction with a phase...
3586780 AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE NUMBER INFORMATION SYSTEM  
The present invention relates to a device for automatically informing a calling subscriber that the telephone number he wishes to contact has been changed; wherein when a subscriber is calling...
3534171 MULTIPLEXING VOICE STORAGE READOUT SYSTEM  
3532821 SPEECH SYNTHESIZER  
3488443 MULTIPLE MESSAGE ANNOUNCING MACHINE WITH DIFFERENT MESSAGE RECYCLING TIMES  
3482057 AUTOMATIC INTERCEPT SYSTEM  
3381278 Data holding system  
3377429 Audio readout of remotely located meter  
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