US9111534B1
patent
Implementations related to system and techniques for provid ing audio news reports are discussed. A computer-imple mented method includes identifying, with a computer system, one or more news preferences for a first user, selecting a plurality of news stories, wherein particular ones of the new stories are determined to be responsive to the news prefer ences for the first user and comprise audio versions of stories converted automatically from textual news stories, assem bling, with the computer system and for the first user, an audio news report that includes the audio versions of the selected news stories, and delivering, to a computing device, the assembled audio news report.
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