| 摘要 |
<p>Telephone message answering machines and voices mail message system are well known in the art If for some reason , a user cannot or does not wish to answer an incoming telephone call , the answering machine or voice mail system answers the telephone call and stores or records the message Answering machines and voice mail systems generally only alert a user as to the total number of calls that are received . For the most part , the user must listen to the messages in the order in wich they are received . A user cannot otherwise receive a summary of important information contained in the messages and selectively listen to the messages in any order that may interest the user Accordingly , a method for presenting information from telephone messages to a user is provided . The method including the steps of: receiving incoming telephone messages; recognizing speech in the incoming telephone messages by searching the incoming telephone messages for at least one predetermined category of information; and if the at least one predetermined category of information is found in the recognized speech, presenting the at least one predetermined category of information to the user.</p> |
