Personal Directory Service

A system, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• memory storing instructions that when executed by at least some of the one or more processors effectuates operations comprising:
• receiving, over the Internet, from a user terminal, a query spoken by a user, wherein the query spoken by the user includes a speech utterance representing a category of persons;
• recognizing the category of persons with the speech recognition engine based on the speech utterance representing the category of persons;
• determining a geographic location of the user terminal;
• searching a listing of persons within or near and the determined geographic location to select persons responsive to the query spoken by the user;
• and
• sending to the user terminal information related to at least some of the responsive persons.