Telephone and wireless access to computer network-based audio

摘要

This invention discloses a system for transmission of audio content to a telephone, the system including an audio stream navigation functionality operable by using a telephone user interface and enabling a user to select audio data to be heard by the user via said telephone, an interactive voice response unit operative in response to an input from said telephone user interface operating said audio stream navigation functionality and a transcoder operative in response to an input from said interactive voice response unit for providing audio data, from an audio source remote from said transcoder, to said interactive voice response unit for listening by said user via said telephone. A method for transmission of audio content to a telephone is also disclosed.