Patent ID: 8077838

Claim:
A method of providing a voice communication, the method comprising: at a voice communicator, identifying text to be communicated by selecting relevant text for communication in an audible form; automatically processing the text to generate an audio equivalent of the relevant text, wherein the processing is by a multi-context application having voice and text functionalities; enabling a user selection of an intended recipient of the audio equivalent of the relevant text by requesting a telephone number of the intended recipient from the user using the voice communicator, the requesting comprising: monitoring a selection by the user of a contact list available on the voice communicator, the contact list including recipient names and their associated telephone numbers, monitoring a selection of at least one recipient name from the recipient names, and identifying the telephone number of the at least one recipient name from the selection; establishing a telephone connection with a recipient device using the telephone number of the at least one recipient name; and communicating the audio equivalent as a telephone communication to the recipient device of the intended recipient, the recipient device being a voice mailbox.