Patent ID: 8166400

Claim:
A method for generating audio cues, the method comprising the steps of: requesting, by a computer, new content for a live region in a number of live regions in a webpage displayed on a display device from a server; responsive to the computer receiving the new content for the live region in the number of live regions in the webpage, updating, by the computer, the live region in the number of live regions in the webpage to form an updated live region displayed on the display device; receiving, by the computer, an identification of a sound file associated with the updated live region in the number of live regions in the webpage and a locale of a user; retrieving, by the computer, the sound file associated with the updated live region in the number of live regions in the webpage from the server based on the identification of the sound file and the locale of the user, wherein the sound file is presented in different languages based on different user locales; and generating, by the computer, an audio cue using the sound file in a language associated with the locale of the user on a sound generation device, wherein the audio cue identifies the updated live region in the number of live regions in the webpage for which the new content has been received.