MESSAGE BOARD SERVICE SYSTEM

PURPOSE:To improve the operability and convenience by using a voice response, receiving a well-known name in the form of voice information between users desiring the message board service and using the name as it is for retrieval as key information to eliminate the need for the notification of the key information and the input of a recording/reproduction command number. CONSTITUTION:In registering a message, a user 1 going to register the message dials a number from a telephone set 3 is connected to a center 6 via a telephone network 4. The center 6 discriminates the call as a request of message recording because of the connection via the public telephone network 4, and a voice signal is transmitted and received between a voice recognition response section 62 in the center 6 and the user 1. When the procedure of the registration is finished, the voice recognition response section 62 transfers the name of registering personnel and the name of the opposite party to a retrieval section 63. On the other hand, the retrieval section 3 searches an idle area of a retrieval table based on the idle/busy display, writes the registration personnel name and the name of the opposite party in an idle area as key information. Then an idle buffer 642 in an address corresponding to the key information is ensured.