Sending a voicemail message as an email attachment with a voice controlled interface for authentication

摘要

Voice mail system that sends e-mails with voice attachments that can be controlled using a voice recognition interface, thus allowing a user of a mobile phone to communicate without the cumbersome dialing of keys and other codes that have to be memorized.Server for sending voice-based messages using e-mail and storing such messages as voice-mail, including a processor, memory, and input/output, and being connected to a network, the memory including a user database, and the server being arranged with the following messaging functions:to record a spoken message received from a caller as a voice-mail message for a recipient, the recipient having an e-mail address;to replay the voice-mail message for the recipient;to convert the spoken message into a data file, the data file being playable as sound;to attach the data file as an attachment to an e-mail message;to send the e-mail message to the e-mail address of the recipient; the server further being arranged with a voice controlled interface for the caller to enable the following control capabilities:verification of the caller's identity;selection of the recipient; andcontrol of the messaging functions.