Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) is the generic term given to applications that integrates a Company’s/ Organization's telephone and computer system to become a voice computer that transforms the caller’s telephone into a terminal capable of directly accessing information and services.

Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems allow the publishing of corporate database information through an interface familiar to everyone, the phone. It is a database interface technology, combining computer telephony hardware (a PC or server with telephony interface cards) and software. It allows a person to ask questions and provide answers by pressing keys on their touch-tone phone.