7. A system according to claim 1 , wherein: the speech recognition means, the keyword processing means and the information display means are substantially continuously or periodically operable so as to continually or periodically update the items of information and/or links thereto displayed to the user.
1. An information interface system, comprising: a speech recognizer arranged to listen to telephone voice signals carried on a telephone communications channel between a user and another person, and to recognize at least one or more predefined keywords or phrases contained within the voice signals; a keyword processor arranged to relate recognized keywords or phrases to items of information stored in an information database to identify relevant items of information thereto; information display means arranged to display items of information and/or links thereto identified by the keyword processing means to the user; and speech recognition control means arranged to automatically activate the speech recognizer in response to an operating system event automatically generated when a caller identification phase is completed.