11. In 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 repertory words; a directory store for storing a plurality of dialing signals corresponding to said repertory words, a speech analyzer, and a spoken word recognizer; the method of outputting dialing signals responsive to input utterances according to claim 7, 8, 9 or 10 wherein the predetermined template signal selecting step comprises generating a control signal corresponding to each first occurring utterance identifying signal; generating signals to address template signals in said template memory responsive to the generation of the acoustic feature signals occurring immediately after each of said first occurring utterance identifying signals; and applying only said predetermined template signals to said spoken word recognizer to identify said acoustic feature signals jointly responsive to said utterance identifying control signals and said template memory addressing signals.
7. In a spoken work 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 plurality of dialing signals corresponding to said repertory words, a speech analyzer, and a spoken word recognizer; the method of outputting dialing signals responsive to input utterances comprising the steps of generating a set of acoustic feature signals for each input utterance in said speech analyzer; identifying each input utterance as a reference word in said spoken word recognizer jointly responsive to template signals from said memory and said input utterance acoustic feature signals from said speech analyzer; retrieving dialing signals from said directory store responsive to each repertory word utterance identifying signal; and responsive to each occurring input utterance identifying signal, selecting only a predetermined set of template signals for identifying the next occurring input utterance.