Audio phone number capture, conversion, and use

A processor-implemented method of capturing and storing telephone numbers from voice mail messages, comprising:

• receiving, by a portable electronic device, at least one of a spoken input and a keypad input during the playing of a voice mail message, wherein the voice mail message comprises a plurality of spoken telephone numbers;
• backing up, by the capturing application, the voice mail message a predetermined number of seconds from receiving the at least one of the spoken input and the keypad input to capture a portion of the voice mail message;
• analyzing, by the capturing application, the portion of the voice mail message to identify only the last telephone number spoken of the plurality of spoken telephone numbers in the voice mail message prior to the receipt of the at least one of the spoken input and the keypad input;
• and
• converting, by the capturing application, the last telephone number to text format and storing the last telephone number in the text format.

A processor-implemented method of capturing and storing telephone numbers from voice telephone calls and voice mail messages, comprising:

• receiving, by a portable electronic device, at least one of a spoken entry and a keypad entry, the at least one entry activating a capturing application executing on the portable electronic device;
• recording, by the capturing application, a telephone number spoken into another portable electronic device during a voice telephone call by a user of the other portable electronic device;
• converting, by the capturing application, the telephone number to a text format;
• storing, by the capturing application, the converted telephone number;
• confirming, by the capturing application, the telephone number in the text format with the user of the other portable electronic device, wherein confirming the telephone number comprises receiving a selection from the other portable electronic device;
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• sending, by the capturing application, a message to a user of the portable electronic device in response to the confirming, the message containing the confirmed telephone number in the text format.