Method system and article for audibly identifying a called party

A method comprising:

• receiving a misdialed number from a calling party;
• retrieving, from a database, a name of a party having the misdialed number;
• generating an audio message which includes the name of the party having the misdialed number;
• communicating the audio message which includes the name of the party having the misdialed number to the calling party;
• inhibiting routing a call to the party having the misdialed number for a first time period;
• detecting an on-hook state from the calling party during the first time period;
• terminating the call to the party having the misdialed number based on said detecting;
• receiving, from the calling party, a correctly dialed number of a called party;
• retrieving, from the database, a name of the called party based on the correctly dialed number;
• generating an audio message which includes the name of the called party;
• communicating the audio message which includes the name of the called party to the calling party;
• determining an absence of an on-hook state from the calling party during a second time period after said communicating the audio message which includes the name of the called party;
• and
• routing a call between the calling party and the called party after the second time period.