9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the information engine selects information from data sources based on the user's media history, information history, and search state.
8. A system for generating audible information related to media, the system comprising: a user agent operable to make requests for spoken audio related to the media; data sources that stores data related to the media; an information engine operable to sample the data sources to generate information about the media; an effort controller that enables an operator to adjust halting criteria that determine when the sampling terminates; a continuation engine that enables the information engine to resume sampling for a subsequent request; an utterance engine operable to generate utterances based on the information obtained from the information engine; a monolog engine operable to generate a textual monolog based on the utterances; a speech engine operable to generated spoken audio from the textual monolog; and a speaker operable to emit the spoken audio audibly.