The delivery of voice serve messages communicating financial, personal or other news telecasts may be customized according to the identity of the recipient and controlled by voice commands. A voice service bureau may generate voice messages for individual subscribers according to their preselected interest and needs. For instance, a financial bulletin may be abbreviated from "Your portfolio has declined by 5% this morning, do you want to sell" The subscriber may be identified using voice-activated PIN or other information, or be authenticated using voice recognition.