Patent ID: 8739240

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at an internet protocol television set top box comprising a processor, verbal commands via a wireless audio receiver causing the internet protocol television set top box to retrieve video data from an internet protocol television subscriber database, the video data corresponding to a still image; communicating, by the set top box, the video data to a display device; receiving, by the set top box, verbal edit commands and non-verbal edit commands from a remote control for editing the video data to generate a plurality of video frames from the still image comprising a sequence of video frames to be displayed on an assigned channel of an internet protocol television network; prompting, by the set top box, an internet protocol television subscriber to provide a narrative to be associated with the video data; receiving, by the set top box, a verbal narrative from a user, the verbal narrative to be associated with the video data; recording, by the set top box, and associating, by the set top box, the verbal narrative with the video frames, so that each video frame in the sequence of video frames is provided with an audio track, wherein an interframe transition in the sequence is generated in accordance with an editing command corresponding to a cursor movement in a point-and-click command, and wherein a duration of a frame corresponds to a duration of the verbal narrative between each click; and transmitting, by the set top box, the video data over the internet protocol television network to an internet protocol television server to associate the video data with the assigned channel of the internet protocol television network, wherein the internet protocol television network includes other channels associated with other internet protocol television programming.