15. An apparatus for processing a voice message, comprising: a storage device for storing one or more voice representations where each voice representation corresponds to a word or phrase and is associated with a criteria measurement value, and for storing one or more actions; an interface for receiving from a user a one of: a user-specified word and a user-specified phrase; and a processor for receiving a voice message, analyzing the voice message to determine if one or more of the stored voice representations corresponding to the received user-specified word or phrase occur in the voice message and to generate a final criteria measurement value associated with the voice message, and performing one or more of the stored actions based on the final criteria measurement value if one or more of the stored voice representations are found to occur in the voice message, the final criteria measurement value based on the value associated with each determined stored voice representation occurring in the voice message.
15. An apparatus for processing a voice message, comprising: a storage device for storing one or more voice representations where each voice representation corresponds to a word or phrase and is associated with a criteria measurement value, and for storing one or more actions; an interface for receiving from a user a one of: a user-specified word and a user-specified phrase; and a processor for receiving a voice message, analyzing the voice message to determine if one or more of the stored voice representations corresponding to the received user-specified word or phrase occur in the voice message and to generate a final criteria measurement value associated with the voice message, and performing one or more of the stored actions based on the final criteria measurement value if one or more of the stored voice representations are found to occur in the voice message, the final criteria measurement value based on the value associated with each determined stored voice representation occurring in the voice message. 16. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein each of the voice representations is a phoneme representation of a word or phrase.