Greeting and schedule integration arrangement

摘要

An arrangement (1005) that automatically generates and manages a subscriber's personal greeting for a voice message system (1000), based upon information contained in the subscriber's electronic schedule database (1007), such as a calendar manager program's database, stored in a computer (1002). The arrangement, implemented as a process on the computer, periodically converts information for the present time that is stored in the schedule database (1007) into a voicable greeting, using text-to-speech conversation facilities, and sends the greeting to the voice message system (1000) for conventional use.