Patent ID: 8494861

Claim:
An apparatus including a movable barrier control system, the apparatus comprising: a movable barrier control system component operably coupled to an audible speech output device, the movable barrier control system component comprising a fixed-location remote control user interface separate from and in responsive communication with a movable barrier operator; the audible speech output device operably coupled to the movable barrier control system component to be actively responsive to communications received from the movable barrier operator to produce an audible signal, the audible signal having an informational content associated with at least two system operational aspects of the movable barrier control system and not associated with interactive speech recognition activity of the moveable barrier control system; memory that operably couples to the audible speech output device, the memory including speech content which includes a plurality of predetermined messages which comprise at least a first message as corresponds to first substantive content and a second message as corresponds to second substantive content, wherein the first and second substantive content are different from one another and wherein the first message corresponds to a first movable barrier control system component and the second message corresponds to a second movable barrier control system component, wherein the first and second movable barrier control system components are different from one another, the movable barrier control system component configured to effect an operation of the movable barrier control system and alteration of at least one of the system operational aspects of the movable barrier control system selected from the group consisting of: maximum force settings; operational linkage between the movable barrier operator and one or more remote interfaces; vacation mode settings; calibration actions; and authorization data.