Speech enabled, automatic telephone dialer using names, including seamless interface with computer-based address book programs, for telephones without private branch exchanges

A speech enabled automatic telephone dialer system, responsive to a user speaking a name corresponding to name-telephone number data of computer-based address book programs, which comprises:

• (A.) a plurality of user telephones connected to at least one public service telephony mechanism;
• (B.) at least one public service telephony mechanism connected to said plurality of user telephones and connected to a telephony board of a name dialer device;
• (C.) a plurality of user computer workstations connected via workstation connector means to a name dialer device, said plurality of user computer workstations having loaded address book programs with name-telephone number data included therein;
• (D.) a name dialer device, including:
• (a.) at least one host computer to perform as a central host server in a network;
• (b.) workstation connector means for connection to a plurality of user computer workstation having loaded address book programs, said workstation connector means being connected to said at least one host computer;
• (c.) a telephony board connected to said at one host computer for controlling a public service telephony mechanism for dialing;
• (d.) memory within said host computer for storing software and name-telephone number data;
• (e.) software contained within said host computer, having at least the following functional capabilities:
• (i.) accessing computer-based address book programs contained within said user computer workstations via said workstation connector means;
• (ii.) receiving voice inputs from a public service telephony mechanism, and creating converted phonemes from names of name-telephone number from said address book programs and matching said phonemes and voice inputs to retrieve specific name-telephone number data from said computer-based address book programs for initiating an automatic dialing thereof;
• and,
• (iii.) signalling to said public service telephony mechanism to initiate a dialing of a telephone number in response to a voice input/phoneme match.

A speech enabled automatic name dialer device, for retrieval of name-telephone number data and for creation therefrom of speech enabling phoneme sets for auto dialing by speaking a name, for use with a telephone via a public service telephone system without a private branch exchange, which comprises:

• (a.) at least one workstation computer to perform as a central processing unit;
• (b.) a telephony board connected to said at least one computer workstation for controlling a public service telephony mechanism for dialing;
• (c.) memory within said at least one computer workstation for storing software and name-telephone number data;
• (d.) a computer-based address book program containing name-telephone number data, contained within said at least one computer workstation;
• (e.) software contained within said at least one computer workstation, having at least the following functional capabilities:
• (i.) accessing said computer-based address book program contained within said at least one computer workstation;
• (ii.) receiving voice inputs from a telephone connected to a public service telephony mechanism without a private branch exchange, and creating converted phonemes from names of name-telephone number data and matching said phonemes and voice inputs to retrieve specific name-telephone number data from said computer-based address book program for initiating an automatic dialing thereof;
• and,
• (iii.) signalling to a public service telephony mechanism to initiate a dialing of a telephone number in response to a voice input/phoneme match.