The voice message service means that a user could record his voice with a mobile terminal such as a cell phone and send the recorded voice to one or more friends for listening. Furthermore, the user may also perform operations, such as reception, forwarding, inquiry, reply or playing on-demand of a voice message, according to the prompt tone of the mobile terminal, for example a cell phone. Voice messages compensates for the difficulty in delivering voice and inconvenience in information input for traditional text messages, therefore solving the problem that those persons who do not use the short messaging service because of being unfamiliar with Chinese phonetic alphabet cannot communicate with others with messages.
Whereas, since a voice message received by a user is an audio file sent from a sender, it is impossible for the user to view the voice message intuitively. When a mobile terminal such as a cell phone has a large number of messages stored locally, it is extremely hard for the user to find out a specific voice message. Therefore, voice message searching is very inconvenient, which greatly reduces user experience.