Patent ID: 8744857

Claim:
An email system, comprising: a server communicably connectable to a mobile device over a wireless link, the server being operative: to receive an email directed to the mobile device, the email having a message body and header information, the message body including text suitable for audio conversion; to forward the email to the mobile device, wherein the mobile device executes a listening application for identifying the email, retrieves the message body and the header information from the email, retrieves a device specific identifier indicative of the mobile device, and sends the message body, the header information, and the device specific identifier to the server; to perform a text-to-speech conversion on the text in the email to generate audio data corresponding to the message body; to load the audio data into an audio file, the audio file having an audio file format recognizable by the mobile device; and to store the audio file in a storage medium for subsequent retrieval by the mobile device.