Communication between users of a telephone system

A telephone comprising:

• a display, a microphone and a speaker, the telephone being connectable to a database having recorded spoken names of users, each recorded spoken name having been spoken by the user having that name;
• and
• the telephone also comprising a mechanism that is configured to record a user's own spoken name for saving in the database and also actuate outputting of at least one recorded spoken name from the database prior to a call to at least one communication device being initiated;
• wherein the mechanism comprises a first button and the mechanism is configured so that actuation of the first button causes the speaker to output a recorded spoken name of a user identified by indicia displayed on the display, the recorded spoken name of the user identified by the displayed indicia being stored in the database, the recorded spoken name of the user identified by the indicia displayed on the display being a recording of the user identified by the indicia displayed on the display speaking his or her name;
• and
• the first button is also configured so that actuation of the first button causes the telephone to record a spoken name of a user speaking via the microphone and subsequently store that recording in the database.

A communication system comprising:

• a switch having a controller, the switch also having access to a database, the database having a voice recording of a name of a first user, the recorded name of the first user being a recording of the first user speaking the name of the first user;
• a first telephone connectable to the switch;
• and
• the first telephone having a first button that is actuatable to enable a second user of that telephone to listen to a recorded spoken name of the first user stored in the database,
• wherein the first button is also actuatable to enable the second user to record the second user speaking the second user's name to store that recording in the database.

A method of communication comprising:

• actuating a first button of a telephone to cause a recorded first name of a first user to be output via a speaker of the telephone, the telephone receiving the recorded first name from a database to output the recorded first name in response to the actuation of the first button, the recorded first name being a recording of the first user saying the first name;
• actuating the first button of the telephone to record a second name being spoken by a second user having that second name;
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• recording that spoken second name spoken by the second user for storage in the database via a microphone of the telephone for storage of that spoken second name with the second user in the database after the actuation of the first button to record the second name being spoken by the second user.