INTERACTIVE WAGERING SYSTEMS WITH STREAMLINED TELEPHONE-BASED WAGERING

摘要

An interactive wagering system is provided that allows users to place wagers over the telephone using a telephone wagering service. The user may customize the service. The service may provide wager odds and race results. Help information may be provided. The sytem may play audio recordings of horse or runner names for the user as the user creates a wager. A streamlined approach may also be used for creating wagers. Tones may be provided after each prompt that is played for the user. Unessential material may be eliminated from the prompts. An accelerated playback rate may be used when playing the prompts. Context-sensitive help may be provided following a certain amount of user inactivity during response to a prompt. Account balance information may be provided to the user automatically during the wager creation process without intervention by the user.