1. A method for activating a voice-controlled function in a multi-station network by using both speaker-dependent and speaker-independent speech recognition facilities, and conditionally to recognizing one or more items of an applicable vocabulary, driving one or more network parts to activate said function, characterized in that said method comprises the following steps: receiving a station-initiated call containing one or more speech items from the vocabulary; executing speaker-independent recognition on said speech items through one or more general templates, whilst in an improvement procedure, in case of successful ascertaining of what had been spoken actually, storing a particular template derived from the speech item so recognized and assigned to an origin of the call in question; following said improvement procedure, applying speaker-dependent recognition if feasible for speech received from the same origin, through one or more particular templates associated to that origin; whilst maintaining a fallback procedure to speaker-independent recognition for any particular origin in order to cater for inability of said speaker-dependent recognition, whilst allowing reverting to said improvement procedure.