Data communications: Automatic voice response: Interfacing man with machine: This developing technique can relieve the human from repetitive instructional chores by piecing together his recorded words

One of the current goals of speech research is to simplify the problem of communication between man and machine by making it possible to exploit the human voice. Toward this end, much work has been devoted, in recent years, to designing voice-response systems. These systems, which simulate the human voice, are automatic and computer-controlled.1