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Abstract

An apparatus and method for processing voice labels and establishing communication connections between a calling party and a called party based on the voice labels. When the calling party wishes to establish a communication with the called party, the calling party activates his/her user device and speaks a voice label into the audio receiver of the user device. The calling party's voice is then converted into analog voice signals (or data voice signals if a data network is being used) and transmitted to a voice label processor. The voice label processor receives the voice signals and extracts at least one feature pattern from the voice signals that identifies the voice label to which it corresponds. The voice label processor then searches a voice label database for the occurrence of the at least one feature pattern and retrieves a predefined voice label code corresponding to the feature pattern from the voice label database and sends a calling party identifier and the retrieved voice label code to a destination identifier determination device. The destination identifier determination device searches a user profile database for an entry corresponding to the calling party identifier. If such an entry is present, the destination identifier determination device searches the entry for the voice label code and retrieves the corresponding destination identifier. The destination identifier determination device then sends the destination identifier to the voice label processor which establishes a communication link to the called party using the retrieved destination identifier.

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