1. An apparatus for accessing media comprising: a touch screen display adapted to receive tactile input; a microphone adapted to receive audio input; and a controller adapted to: transmit a first received audio input to a multimodal portal; receive extensible markup language text from the multimodal portal based on text conversion of the first received audio input; parse the extensible markup language text to generate parsed text; generate a query for video media based on a first received tactile input and the parsed text; send the query and receive a text response in response to the query, the text response identifying video media based on the first received tactile input and the parsed text of the query; transmit a request for additional information related to the text response based on a second tactile input; receive additional information based on the request for additional information; transmit a command to transmit video to a device in response to a third received tactile input and a second received audio input; and display a graphical user interface on the touch screen display for controlling display of video via the device.