Patent ID: 7095827

Claim:
A system for broadcasting of audio content via a telephone comprising: a broadcasting subsystem comprising: at least one encoder; at least one of a cache and a multicaster receiving an output from said at least one encoder; at least one reception IVR operative to receive said output via said at least one encoder and via said at least one of a cache and a multicaster; and a VoiceXML interpreter operative to receive said output from said broadcasting subsystem; a broadcast IVR operative for voice communication with a telephone and including a VoiceXML interpreter comprising an object module which receives digitized voice from buffers in said IVR and uses said digitized voice to determine a particular audio broadcast, said Voice XML interpreter operative to provide said particular audio broadcast as a streaming audio output to said broadcasting subsystem; a VoiceXML document server in communication with said VoiceXML interpreter; a resource manager in communication with said VoiceXML document server and said at least one encoder; and a database in communication with said VoiceXML document server, and wherein said multicaster is in communication with at least one computer and provides said streaming audio output from said broadcasting subsystem.