COMPUTER NETWORK TELEPHONY

摘要

There is disclosed a method and apparatus for connecting computer network Internet protocol telephones using a voice recognition engine and a Internet protocol address database on an Internet server. The method comprises opening a voice channel from an Internet protocol phones to a voice recognition server; determining the name of the addressee from a speech input sent over the voice channel to the voice recognition server by the caller; determining an Internet protocol address from an Internet protocol address database corresponding to the determined addressee's name; opening a data channel from the database and transmitting the Internet protocol address to one or other of said telephones; and routing logic on said one or other Internet protocol phones using the Internet protocol address to establish a connection with the other Internet protocol phone. This allows the Internet protocol phones to access remote resources of voice recognition and a large database thereby taking advantage of more powerful resources that would be available locally. This is particularly advantageous for pervasive computing devices which have limited resources for storage of Internet protocol addresses.