Personal electronic directory

A telecommunications system having a plurality of switching means interconnected by trunks, a plurality of subscriber stations arranged in groups with each group being served by one of said switching means, a plurality of subscriber lines connecting each switching means with the group of subscriber stations served thereby, a switching network in each switching means for establishing communication paths between calling subscriber stations and called subscriber stations addressed by the calling stations, the improvement comprising:

• an adjunct means associated with at least one of said switching means;
• multiline hunt group means associated with a personal directory service access number;
• said adjunct means including:
• voice response and recognition means connected to said multiline hunt group means, and
• processor means responsive to subscriber identification for performing the following functions (a) recognizing that a subscriber selected name and telephone number is to be stored in a selected memory provided to that subscriber from among a plurality of memories dedicated to other subscribers and for storing multiple names and telephone numbers inputted by audio signals originated by that subscriber to said multiline hunt group means and including an alphabetic address of predetermined length articulated by said subscriber for each telephone number, and (b) recognizing in response to spoken audio signals that said subscriber is seeking access to one of said telephone numbers stored for that subscriber,
• said voice response and recognition means generating an audio signal repeating the telephone number requested by that subscriber by the alphabetic address, and providing to said subscriber audio instructions for storing and retrieving said inputted telephone numbers.