Apparatus for television display of telephone audio and data dialogue

This invention relates apparatus for interconnection with the telephone network (26) to manipulate and direct audio and data dialog relating to subscriber-directed audio, interactive voice response and data dialogue over the telephone network using a television set (20) connected to the apparatus disclosed herein. The dialogue is controlled by the subscriber using a hand-held remote control (10) which directs the subscriber dialogue over the telephone network to data bases (28) and other services accessed by the subscriber to provide information to the subscriber via a television set and to allow the subscriber to initiate transactions with the data bases and other services to permit the delivery of information to the subscriber and to enable the subscriber to place orders, do home banking, home shopping and a host of other activities.