Patent ID: 7818178

Claim:
A method for supporting voice-activated browsing for audio data streams in a wireless network, the method comprising: receiving, at a switching module, an audio request comprising input voice data for voice-activated web browsing from a mobile device of a subscriber; validating, at an Internet gateway, the audio request; converting, by a speech recognition module, the input voice data to input text data; determining, by the Internet gateway, if the input text data corresponds to a pre-defined web site; connecting, at the Internet gateway, the mobile device of the subscriber to the pre-defined web site if the input text data corresponds thereto; receiving, at a web interface, first audio data streams of a web-based audio program from the pre-defined web site if the input text data corresponds thereto; providing, by the web interface, the first audio data streams of the web-based audio program to the mobile device of the subscriber; providing, by the internet gateway, the input text data to an audio web search engine if the input text data does not correspond to the pre-defined web site; configuring, by the audio web search engine, a search request based on the input text data; conducting, by the audio web search engine, a search for second audio data streams of the web-based audio program based on the search request; and, providing, by the audio web search engine, results of the search to the mobile device of the subscriber.