US Patent 7590538 Voice recognition system for navigating on the internet

A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for recognizing voice commands for manipulating data on the Internet. Data is provided on a website. Voice signals are received from a user who is accessing the website, which are interpreted to determine navigation commands. Selected data of the website is output based on the navigation commands. In one embodiment of the present invention, the data includes a voice-activated application. The user may be allowed to access the website from either a computer or a telephone, or both. A language may be determined from the voice signals and the voice signals interpreted in the language being spoken by the user.