Patent ID: 7806318

Claim:
A method carried out in connection with automated banking machines that operate responsive to data read from data bearing records, comprising: a) through operation of at least one computer in an automated banking machine host banking system, sending at least one screen message to an automated banking machine that includes a card reader, wherein the at least one screen message includes speech data and data indicating the presence of the speech data in the at least one screen message, wherein the speech data is usable by the automated banking machine to produce an output of verbal information through at least one speaker device of the automated banking machine, wherein the data indicating the presence of the speech data in the at least one screen message, is usable by the automated banking machine to determine that speech data in the screen message is available to be retrieved from the screen message, b) through operation of the at least one computer of the host banking system, sending at least one further message to the automated banking machine, wherein the at least one further message does not include speech data, wherein the at least one further message does not include data indicating the presence of speech data in the at least one further message, wherein the at least one further message is operative to cause the automated banking machine to output visual information corresponding to the at least one screen message through at least one display device of the automated banking machine and to cause the automated banking machine to output through the at least one speaker device verbal information corresponding to the output visual information.