Telephone service providers presently have available numerous telephone services which may be offered to subscribers. Many of these services require greetings or other types of audible announcements to be recorded and played. As those skilled in the art will recognize, it is highly desirable to have these messages recorded in the voice of the telephone subscriber. However, the current state of available technology has heretofore prohibited such an approach.
As an example, consider an AIN "Do not Disturb" service which may be used to advise calling parties that the called party is presently unavailable and to try again later. While it would desirable to have this message provided in the voice of the called party, current technology requires such recordings to be physically "burned" into the Read Only Memory (ROM) of the corresponding central office switch of each subscriber. As readily seen, this is clearly an unmanageable task which becomes further complicated if the user desires to change his or her message or telephone at a later date.
Consequently, a need has developed for a method for recording subscriber specific messages for use in telephone services which overcomes the limitations of the prior art. Such a method should permit easy recording of subscriber specific messages in a handful of central locations which may be readily recorded and modified by telephone service subscribers.