conference call the keywords might be a participant 39 s name or words associated with him or her or words associated with his or her area of knowledge the embodiments uses speech recognition technology to listen for those words when the embodiments detects that those words have been spoken the embodiment alerts the participant u2014 using audible visual and or tactile signals u2014 that the participant 39 s attention to the call is warranted when the keywords are chosen wisely the benefit can be great application_number US 201113245835 A description fig1 depicts a schematic diagram of the salient components of telecommunications system 100 in accordance with the first illustrative embodiment of the present invention telecommunications system 100 comprises telecommunications terminals 101 1 101 2 101 3 101 4 101 5 101 6 101 7 101 8 telecommunications switch 102 and public switched telephone network pstn 110 interconnected as shown the first illustrative embodiment is switch u201c centric u201d in the sense that all of the salient signaling to and from the various telecommunications terminals involves telecommunications switch 102 this is contrast to the second illustrative embodiment which is described in detail below in which the salient signaling between the telecommunications terminals is peer to peer and does not require a single centralized entity although the first illustrative embodiment comprises four telecommunications terminals connected directly to telecommunications switch 102 and four telecommunications terminals connected to telecommunications switch 102 via public switched telephone network 110 it will be clear to those skilled in the art after reading this specification how to make and use alternative embodiments of the present invention that comprise i any number of telecommunications terminals that are connected directly to telecommunications switch 102 or ii any number of telecommunications terminals that are connected to telecommunications switch 102 via.