METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL USING AUDIO INTERFACE

摘要

A method and apparatus for retrieving information from a document server (160) using an audio interface device (110). In an advantageous embodiment, a telecommunications network includes an audio browsing node (150) comprising an audio processing node (152) and an audio interpreter node (154). An audio channel is established between the audio interface device and the audio browsing node. A document serving protocol channel (164) is established between the audio browsing node (150) and the document server (160). The document server (160) provides documents to the audio browsing node (150) via the document serving protocol channel (164). The audio browsing node (150) interprets the document into audio data and provides the audio data to the audio interface device (110) via the audio channel. The audio interface device (110) provides audio user input to the audio browsing node (150) via the audio channel. The audio browsing node (150) interprets the audio user input into user data appropriate to be provided to the document server (160) and provides the user data to the document server (160) via the document serving protocol channel (164).