Telecommunications speech/text conversion and message delivery system

摘要

An intelligent network telecommunications service allows a calling party (22) to provide a voice message which is converted by the service to a text message. The text message is delivered to any of a plurality of types of media formatters (90), which in turn transmit the text message to corresponding types of receiving equipment (100). The text messages can be delivered to a sole called party or to a distribution list of called parties.