1. A spoken word controlled repertory dialing circuit comprising: a memory for storing a plurality of template signals representative of the acoustic features of reference words including command words and repertory words; a directory store for storing a set of dialing signals corresponding to said repertory words; a speech analyzer responsive to each input spoken word utterance for forming acoustic feature signals representative of said utterance; a spoken word recognizer jointly responsive to said input spoken word utterance acoustic feature signals from said speech analyzer and template signals from said memory for generating a signal identifying said input utterance; means responsive to the input utterance identifying signal corresponding to a repertory word template for retrieving the corresponding dialing signal from said directory store; and means responsive to each occurring input utterance identifying signal for selecting a predetermined set of template signals to identify the next occurring input utterance.