A system enables communication between server resources and a wide spectrum of
end-terminals to enable access to the resources of both converged and non-converged
networks via voice and/or electronically generated commands. An electronic personal
assistant (ePA) incorporates generalizing/abstracting communications channels,
data and resources provided through a converged computer/telephony system interface
such that the data and resources are readily accessed by a variety of interface
formats including a voice interface or data interface. A set of applications provides
dual interfaces for rendering services and data based upon the manner in which
a user accesses the data. An electronic personal assistant in accordance with an
embodiment of the invention provides voice/data access to web pages, email, file
shares, etc. A voice-based resource server authenticates a user by receiving vocal
responses to one or more requests variably selected and issued by a speaker recognition-based
authentication facility. Thereafter an application proxy is created.
