Patent ID: 6370237
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A voice activated dialing system, comprising:a database including a plurality of speech templates, associated telephone numbers, and recordings, wherein multiple speech templates by multiple users can be linked to a single recording; and processing circuitry for: enrolling a new telephone number by generating a new speech template for the new telephone number, comparing said new telephone number with existing telephone numbers in said database to identify existing associations between existing templates and said new telephone number, associating said new speech template to a single recording associated with other of said existing templates that are also associated with said new telephone number; comparing an utterance to one or more of said templates from said database to determine a matching template; retrieving the telephone number associated with the matching template; retrieving the recording linked to the matching template; and replaying said recording to the user prior to initiating a connection to said associated telephone number.