Facsimile system with a voice transmission function

摘要

A facsimile communication method includes a voice relay mode. In one example, when this voice relay mode has been established, image information is first transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver and then a voice message arbitrarily created by an operator of the transmitter is also transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver, together with a telephone number of an addressee of the image information. Thereafter, the voice message is transmitted from the receiver to a telephone of the addressee having the telephone number to verbally apprise of the addressee of the fact that the image information addressed to the addressee has been transmitted to the receiver.