Method for automatically providing information by telephone by means of stored dictionaries for possible entries of individual attributes, by means of a search engine which stores sought information together with associated attributes in the form of data records and by means of a voice recognition device, having the following steps: (a) a search argument of a desired subscriber is queried for an attribute in a manner directed to a person searching for information, (b) the verbal information obtained with the query for an attribute is compared with the entries stored in the dictionary belonging to this attribute, a hit list of entries in the dictionary belonging to the attribute which correspond or come closest to the information obtained in the query for the attribute is determined, individual confidence values are determined for the entries belonging to the hit list by means of the voice recognition device, said values indicating a probability of the respective entry corresponding to the information obtained in the query for the attribute, (c) steps (a) and (b) are repeatedly carried out for one or more further attributes using the dictionary respectively belonging to the further attribute, (d) a search query for all data records which comply with any combination of the entries in the various hit lists found in steps (a)-(c) is carried out, all possible combinations of the selected search arguments being permuted in the search query, and the data records which comply with the search query being returned, (e) if an equivocal result is achieved, that is to say a plurality of data records are obtained, the data records obtained are weighted with total confidence values, which indicate a probability of the respectively obtained data record corresponding to the verbal information obtained in the query for the plurality of attributes, on the basis of the individual confidence values of the entries belonging to the respective data record, and the data record having the greatest total confidence value is output. (a) a search argument of a desired subscriber is queried for an attribute in a manner directed to a person searching for information, (b) the verbal information obtained with the query for an attribute is compared with the entries stored in the dictionary belonging to this attribute, a hit list of entries in the dictionary belonging to the attribute which correspond or come closest to the information obtained in the query for the attribute is determined, individual confidence values are determined for the entries belonging to the hit list by means of the voice recognition device, said values indicating a probability of the respective entry corresponding to the information obtained in the query for the attribute, (c) steps (a) and (b) are repeatedly carried out for one or more further attributes using the dictionary respectively belonging to the further attribute, (d) a search query for all data records which comply with any combination of the entries in the various hit lists found in steps (a)-(c) is carried out, all possible combinations of the selected search arguments being permuted in the search query, and the data records which comply with the search query being returned, (e) if an equivocal result is achieved, that is to say a plurality of data records are obtained, the data records obtained are weighted with total confidence values, which indicate a probability of the respectively obtained data record corresponding to the verbal information obtained in the query for the plurality of attributes, on the basis of the individual confidence values of the entries belonging to the respective data record, and the data record having the greatest total confidence value is output.