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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1998
John Schier, Austin, TX (US);
Alcatel USA Sourcing, LP, Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A voice activated dialing system includes a database maintaining a plurality of speech templates, associated telephone numbers, and recordings, wherein multiple speech templates can be linked to a single master recording. Processing circuitry compares an utterance from a user to one or more of the templates from the database to find a matching template. When a match is found, the processing circuitry retrieves the telephone number associated with the matching template and the corresponding recording. The recording is replayed to the user prior to initiating a connection to the associated telephone number. Master recordings can be used for multiple entries which are associated with a single telephone number to reduce storage requirements.