Patent ID: 8185402

Claim:
A method for retrieving information from web sites by uttering speech commands into a voice enabled device and for providing to users retrieved information in an audio form via said voice enabled device, said method comprising the steps of: providing a computer operatively connected to the internet, said computer further being operatively connected to at least one speaker-independent speech recognition engine and to at least one speech synthesis engine; providing a voice enabled device operatively connected to said computer, said voice enabled device configured to receive speech commands from users; providing a speech command to said speaker-independent speech recognition engine, said computer accessing at least one of a plurality of web sites associated with said speech command to obtain an information to be retrieved, said computer first accessing a first web site of said plurality of web sites and, if said information to be retrieved is not found at said first web site, said computer sequentially accessing said plurality of web sites until said information to be retrieved is found or until said plurality of web sites has been accessed; said speech synthesis engine producing an audio message containing any retrieved information from said web sites; and said speech synthesis engine transmitting said audio message to said users via said voice enabled device.