PURPOSE: To prevent a content of a message disadvantageous to a caller from being left by providing the opportunity of selection of storage of the recording content to the caller to revise the recording or delete it.

CONSTITUTION: A message recording reproduction section 3 records a message from a caller in a prescribed recording area assigned in an IC memory 31. When a prescribed time elapses, a control section 2 outputs a recording end signaling tone and sends a confirmation message succeedingly to allow the caller to confirm the recorded content so far. When the caller satisfies the content of message, since the caller terminates the phone call, the recorded talking content is stored as it is. When the caller does not interrupt the telephone line, a reply section 6 sends a signaling tone representing the start of recording and a message recording reproduction section 3 just after the transmission erases once the content of the recording in the recording area assigned in the IC memory 31 and records the talking content of the caller newly afterward therein.