1. A telecommunications system, comprising: a plurality of communications devices, said plurality of communications devices being assignable to telecommunications system users; a presence service adapted to monitor said plurality of communications devices for user context; a user database storing user information for each assigned user; a text-to-speech generator; personalizing means for automatically personalizing a default user greeting for said each assigned communications device, the personalized default greeting including text-to-speech converted said user information; storage storing each personalized default greeting until a replacement is provided; and greeting means for selectively providing a stored default greeting responsive to communications directed to a respective communications device, wherein said personalizing means includes means for generating a context sensitive user greeting based on said user context, said greeting means further selectively providing a respective context sensitive user greeting.