Abbreviated and enhanced dialing apparatus and methods particularly adapted cellular or other types of telephone systems

Apparatus for enabling abbreviated telephone dialing in a dialing system upon a calling party dialing a telephone number having a number of repetitive digits appearing sequentially in said number, said apparatus including digit entry means and dialing means, said digit entry means including at least voice responsive means being responsive to at least vocal digit and select command word entries, vocal actuation of said responsive means effecting the dial out of any given entered digit, said calling party dialing said telephone number via said digit entry means until the first one of said repetitive digits is entered, said voice responsive means being responsive to a prescribed actuation by said calling party, wherein said prescribed actuation is comprised of an enunciation of a prescribed command word or words, the apparatus comprising:

• last digit dialed storage means, said storage means storing the last digit dialed by said calling party, and wherein said voice responsive means responsive to said prescribed actuation and in operative cooperation with said storage means outputting a control signal to said dialing means thereby initiating an automatic repeat dial operation, wherein said dialing means effects the repeat dialing of the last digit stored in said storage means a number of times without further actuation of said responsive means.