Patent ID: 7313528

Claim:
A method of providing text-to-speech streaming data using a distributed network based message processing system, said system including a user access server for controlling access of registered users to said system, an internetwork data retrieval server for retrieving raw data from an internetwork, a text-to-speech server for converting said raw data to an audible speech data, and a memory storage output device for storing a streaming media file containing said audible speech data, a streaming media server for transmitting said audible speech data to said registered users via said internetwork, the method comprising the steps of: authenticating a registered user; retrieving said raw data from said internetwork; parsing said raw data for text passages; converting said text passages to said audible speech data; converting said audible speech data to said streaming media file; storing said streaming media file in a memory storage output device; outputting a streaming media file to said registered user.