To provide an automatic telephone answering
system that reduces the cost of sending messages while reducing the burden on operators to respond to telephone calls by sending messages when a customer selects not to send a message or when the call is interrupted in an automatic telephone answering process. [Solution] The message sending IVR
system performs audio playback
processing during a call with a telephone caller, and includes a call end determination unit during audio playback that determines whether the caller has ended the call while the audio is being played back, and a call end determination unit during standby that determines whether the caller has ended the call while the
signal standby unit is waiting for a DTMF
signal or audio.If the call end determination unit during audio playback determines that the caller has ended the call while the audio is being played back by the audio playback unit, or if the call end determination unit during standby determines that the caller has ended the call while the
signal standby unit is waiting for a DTMF signal or audio, and if it determines that the caller's
telephone number is a
mobile phone number, it sends a message to that
mobile phone number.