A system and method are provided for automatically providing for
connection to electronic addresses received in spoken communications or
audio signals. Under one embodiment, a system and method receives
telephone calls or other information streams including spoken address
information. The spoken address information includes electronic
addresses, for example, telephone numbers. The system and method identify
the spoken address information, and automatically recognize and extract
the identified address information from the information stream. The
extracted address information is subsequently available for use in
automatically coupling a receiving communication device to electronic
devices accessed by or associated with the extracted address information.