Patent Document ID: 7735012
Application ID: 10981993

Base Claim:
1. A method for assisting a user in efficiently navigating an audible user interface at a portable computing device arranged to store a plurality of media items, the method comprising: (a) displaying a menu having a list of navigation icons each of which corresponds to a navigation command for assisting the user in navigating the plurality of media items; (b) navigating the plurality of menu items by receiving a user touch event on one of the navigation icons; (c) in response to (b), playing an audibilized navigation command associated with the navigation icon on which the user touch event is received, wherein the playing is performed only during the touch event, wherein if the user decides not to select the associated navigation icon, then the user terminates the touch event prior to the completion of the playing of the audibilized navigation command; and (d) if the user decides to select the navigation icon associated with the audibilized navigation command, then receiving a selection user input event at the navigated to navigation icon that causes the portable computing device to execute the navigation command otherwise, returning to (b).

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the audio prompt for each menu item is generated via text-to-speech processing, and wherein the voice used in the audio prompt varies based on the type of the menu item, as indicated by customized settings input by the user.