Device and method for remote interrogation of individually stored call numbers

The invention relates to a device and a method for the remote retrieval of individually stored numbers over a telephone network with a speech and selection device (2) and connected thereto speech recognition unit (9), which is able to recognize predetermined keywords spoken language. Controlled by a sequence control (10), the device releases data, in particular telephone numbers, from a memory (8) for remote access, or polls the data associated with the keyword in the memory (8), wherein the data associated with a keyword are transferred from the memory (8) to the sequencer (10), and the sequencer (10) converts the queried data into a speech signal by means of voice prompts stored in the speech memory (4),