Patent ID: 7729478

Claim:
A method, comprising: (a) receiving, by a message interface, a request to play a spoken message audibly to a subscriber; (b) receiving the message, the message being in the form of an audio stream; (c) thereafter identifying, by a speech recognition module, selected spoken words in the message, the speech recognition module identifying selected spoken words using a set of grammar rules, the set of grammar rules describing a unique structure of each of a plurality of a street address, a telephone number, an email address, a uniform resource locator, a price, an order number, and an article name; (d) embedding, by an expert system, into the audio stream or a text stream derived therefrom, in proximity to the identified selected spoken words, markers; (e) providing, by a message retrieval agent, the identified selected spoken words to the subscriber in a manner different from a manner used to provide unselected spoken words to the subscriber; and (f) distinguishing, in a display to the subscriber, between selected and unselected words with a relative position of the selected words in a message string being indicated.