Patent ID: 6862344

Claim:
A telephone-based audio information announcement system adapted to provide a user with audible information messages, comprising: sequentially ordered list of audio information messages wherein the audio information messages are defined independently of key labels of a telephone keypad; a keypad input configured to wait for input from the user before playing an audio information message wherein the input is a navigational command indicating a desired direction of movement through the sequentially ordered list of audio information messages independent of content in the audio information messages; a forward navigator configured to activate play of a next audio information message from the sequentially ordered list of audio information messages, the next audio information message immediately succeeding in list order a currently selected audio information message from the sequentially ordered list of audio information messages, in response to a first pre-determined user input navigational command; and a backward navigator configured to activate play of a previous audio information message from the sequentially ordered list of audio information messages, the previous audio information message immediately preceding in list order the currently selected message, in response to a second pre-determined user input navigational command.