Patent ID: 7769589

Claim:
A system for providing an electronic program guide (EPG) about a plurality of programs supplied through a digital broadcasting system, comprising: a service information receiver unit receiving service information transmitted from the digital broadcasting system and extracting the EPG information from the service information, and storing the EPG information, wherein the EPG information includes sentence fragments corresponding to listings of information about the plurality of programs; an EPG processor converting the EPG information stored in the service information receiver unit into speech EPG information, wherein the EPG processor converts the EPG information into characters and forms the same into complete sentences to produce the speech EPG information; and a speech output unit producing the speech EPG information as speech, wherein the EPG processor classifies the EPG information for each program into higher-order and lower-order information, respectively converts them into higher-order and lower-order speech EPG information, outputs the higher-order speech EPG information to the speech output unit to reproduce it as speech, and selectively outputs the lower-order speech EPG information to the speech output unit in response to the user's request to reproduce it as speech, wherein the higher-order information is a summary description of a corresponding program and the lower-order information is a more detailed description of the corresponding program.