Patent ID: 7603620

Claim:
A method comprising: identifying, at a computer system, visual information in a document; identifying, at the computer system, audible information from the document that is convertible to audio based at least on results of layout analysis of the document; converting, at the computer system, at least one audible information element of the identified audible information to audio, wherein at least one audible information element converted to audio is new audio data and is associated with a portion of visual information indentified in the document; selecting, at the computer system, portions of the visual information and audible information, including the new audio data and associated visual information, for inclusion into a multimedia representation of the document; and composing, at the computer system, the multimedia representation with the audio based on selected audible information with selected visual information, so that audio is synchronized with corresponding selected visual information during presentation of the visual information in the multimedia representation, wherein the new audio data is synchronized to at least a portion of time the portion of associated visual in formation is being shown.