Patent ID: 7035806

Claim:
A communication apparatus comprising: a word-generating means for recognizing a voice and generating a first word and a second word, which correspond to said voice; a word-collating means for collating said first word generated by said word-generating means with pieces of information relating to a destination electronic mail address stored in advance and outputting the destination electronic mail address corresponding to said first word; a program-activating means for confirming the fact that said second word generated by said word-generating means is a predetermined word and activating an electronic mail program corresponding to said predetermined word said program-activating means including status detecting means for determining whether the electronic mail program is activated already and judging whether to issue a local command that is specific to controlling the electronic mail program based on whether the electronic mail program is already activated; and a communication-destination-setting means for adopting said destination electronic mail address output by said word-collating means as a destination electronic mail address of the electronic mail program activated by said program-activating means.