voicebankn.
/ˈvɔɪsbaŋk/, U.S. /ˈvɔɪsˌbæŋk/ 1. Telecommunications. An electronic storage area for recorded voice messages, esp. one used as part of a voicemail service.A proprietary name in the United States.
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society > computing and information technology > network > [noun] > electronic messaging > facility for retrieving
electronic mailbox1960
voicebank1978
voice mailbox1980
society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > system or equipment for leaving voice messages
answerphone1917
answering machine1924
answerer1959
voicebank1978
voicemail1980
voice mailbox1980
voice messaging1981
voice box1984
1978 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 31 Oct. tm283/1 Voice Bank... For telephone answering services... First use Sept. 1, 1977.
1979 Times 30 Nov. 23 The system records the messages, stores them in digital form in a ‘voice bank’ and plays them back as required.
1990 InterCity Mag. Sept. 65/3 You can solve [telephone interruptions] with an answering machine. With a cellphone, while travelling, you don't have that option, unless the cellphone includes a voicebank.
2004 Computer Weekly 25 May 20/3 No longer will they have to carry multiple devices, look up mobile address lists on different phones or use more than one voicebank or phone number.
2. A system used by an organization to provide an automated response to a number of telephone callers simultaneously.A proprietary name in the United States.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > telephone facilities
automatic dialler1922
dialler1922
autodial1934
autodialler1960
redial1960
auto-answer1961
hold1965
camp-on1975
caller ID1978
voicebank1988
1988 PR Newswire Europe (Nexis) 15 Sept. The executive council will be meeting during the afternoon..and a fresh voice bank notice will be issued as soon as possible after that meeting.
1997 M. Collin & J. Godfrey Altered State iii. 95 Updated messages going hourly out on seventy Voice Banks, each of which could take ten calls simultaneously.
2000 Daily Tel. 4 May 3/1 A woman's complaint to a food safety helpline about a Spanish sausage was accidentally put on the major incident voicebank of most British police forces.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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