Patent ID: 8498867

Claim:
A computer implemented method, comprising: displaying on a display device, at least one page formatted from a document that have portions pre-identified with a plurality of voice models, the page including a text representation of a sequence of words on the page, the page displayed in a user interface rendered on the display device; displaying on the user interface rendered on the display device a menu, the menu depicting graphical picture representations of a plurality of characters with a character comprising a respective one of the graphical picture representations, at least one voice model and selectable characteristics of a reading style of the character associated with the respective graphical picture representation, receiving, by one or more computers, a user-based selection of a first group of words in the sequence of words, associating, by the one or more computers, a user-based selection of a first character to the first group of words to provide one of the plurality of associated voice models with the user based menu selection of a first character, receiving, by the one or more computers, a user-based selection of a second, different group of words in the sequence of words, associating, by the one or more computers, a user-based selection of a second character to the second group of words to provide a second one of the plurality of associated voice models with the user based menu selection of a second character, and generating, by the one or more computers, an audible output of the text corresponding to the first and second groups of words with the audible output of the first group of words being generated using a first voice model associated with the first character and the audible output of the second group of words being generated using a second voice model associated with the second character, the second voice model being different from the first voice model.