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Voice directed communications system platform

  • US 5,325,421 A
  • Filed: 08/24/1992
  • Issued: 06/28/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/24/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A voice directed telephone system employing automatic speech recognition apparatus, said system comprising:

  • means for storing in a memory for each of a plurality of subscribers an associated specification defining first and second groups of voice templates respectively characterizing calling and billing labels, said calling labels being associated with respective telephone numbers and said billing labels being associated with respective billing accounts,means, responsive to receipt of a telephone call from one of said subscribers, for prompting said one subscriber to utter a destination that said one subscriber desires to call, for receiving the subscriber'"'"'s speech signals characterizing the desired destination as they are entered, for determining the telephone number of the desired called destination as a function of the received speech signals characterizing said destination and the associated first group of voice templates, for establishing a telephone call thereto and for charging for the cost of the established telephone call to a particular billing account associated with said one subscriber, andmeans, operative in the event that said one subscriber utters a label of the associated second group of labels prior to the establishment of said call, for identifying the associated one of said billing accounts as a function of the subscriber'"'"'s speech signals identifying said uttered billing label and the associated second group of voice templates, and for then charging said call to said one billing account rather than to said particular billing account.

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