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Abstract

A method and apparatus for accessing Internet using voice and audio instead of a conventional visual display. POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) can be used to access the Internet by calling an 'audio' ISP (Internet Service Provider) and interacting with an Intelligent Agent. An Audio ISP uses a standard telephone (POTS, digital or analog cellular telephone, PCS telephone, satellite telephone, etc.) instead of a modem, telephone line and traditional data ISP. The Intelligent Agent (IA) takes information from the caller, accesses the Internet, retrieves the desired information and reads it back to the caller using a voice signal. The IA can surf the net by responsively interacting with the caller using voice. The IA does not need a web browser. The IA does not require any change in the current world wide web data format to support audio. The IA works with the existing web data format. Users can also access email (both send and receive) by talking and listening through the IA using POTS.

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