Patent ID: 6917802

Claim:
A wireless telephone system for communicating with remote telephone terminals through a public switched telephone network, comprising: a plurality of mobile keyless telephone instruments; at least one central station for communication with the mobile keyless telephone instruments to interface the mobile keyless telephone instruments with the public switched telephone network for communication with remote telephone terminals, the central station including: a voice generator for providing voice cues to individual mobile keyless telephone instruments; a speech recognition unit for receiving spoken number signals from the mobile keyless telephone instruments and converting the spoken number signals into program signals and dial-up signals for actuating the public switched telephone network to attain communication with remote telephone terminals; a control unit for driving the voice generator and the speech recognition unit in accordance with stored program signals to cue for spoken number signals from the keyless telephone instruments to provide dial-up signals for attaining communication with remote telephone terminals and while in programming communication with an individual mobile keyless telephone instrument to convert the spoken number signals to provide program signals for individual operation of the central station in communicating with the individual mobile keyless telephone instrument; and a memory for storing the program signals for individual mobile keyless telephone instruments, including program signals directed to the individual programs for the operation of the central station in communicating with the individual mobile keyless telephone instruments.