A system and method for providing enhanced audio messaging services. The
system comprises a voice gateway for interfacing with a plurality of
telephone devices, a voice messaging server (VMS) and a content server
that together enable the execution of the enhanced messaging services.
The system further includes a metadata database for maintaining metadata
associated with users, messages and content items. The enhanced audio
messaging services include, but are not limited to, phone-to-phone
sharing of audio content, phone-to-phone sharing of broadcasted radio
content, web-to-phone audio content sharing, phone-to-web content
sharing, interactive group discussions, and dynamic asynchronous audio
messaging.