Patent ID: 6940951

Claim:
A speech enabled automatic name dialer dialing system for connection to a telephone system, utilizing a user computer having a computer-based address book program for retrieval of name-telephone number data therefrom and for creation therefrom of speech enabling phoneme sets for auto dialing by speaking a name utilizing telephone application programming interface, for use with telephones with private branch exchanges, which consists of: (a) at least one user computer having a microphone and a speaker; (b) a telephone application programming interface provider in said user computer; (c) memory within said at least one user computer for storing, managing and supporting name-telephone number data; (d) software contained within said user computer, having at least the following functional capabilities, to be performed in sequential order: (i) accessing said at name-telephone number data contained within said at least one user computer; (ii) creating converted phonemes from names of said name-telephone number data; (iii) receiving voice inputs from a microphone connected to said user computer; (iv) matching said phonemes and said voice inputs to retrieve specific name-telephone number data from said computer-based name-telephone number data for initiating an automatic dialing thereof; and, (v) signaling to a router and to a private branch exchange to initiate a dialing of a telephone number and to effect a telephone call within a telephone system in response to a voice input/phoneme match; and, wherein said software further includes the following functional capability to be performed in sequential order: (vi) to prompt a user to speak a phone number when a voice inputted name does not match available name-telephone number data; and, (vii) to convert voice inputted telephone numbers into signals for automatic dialing.