Patent Document ID: 8705705
Application ID: 13438136

Base Claim:
1. A method of allowing a recipient of an email message from a source to respond to said email message via voice, the method comprising: rendering said email message to said recipient as speech; as said email message is being rendered as speech, receiving a signal from said recipient indicating the recipient intends to respond to a particular part of said email message by inserting a voice memo at a particular location in said email message indicated by said recipient; receiving said voice memo from said recipient, wherein said voice memo comprises voice-memo content; storing said voice memo; inserting a tag into said email message at said particular location indicated by said recipient, wherein said tag indicates that said voice memo is inserted in said email message at said particular location; and providing said voice-memo content to said source at said particular location indicated by said recipient.

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Claim 11:
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein providing said voice-memo content to said source comprises providing said voice-memo content as text to said source.