1. A method of accessing content at a speech-enabled automated system, the method comprising: receiving a verbal input at an interactive voice response system; and accessing an information store to retrieve content based on the verbal input, wherein the information store determines whether to suspend retrieval of the content until the content is available when information store content of the information store is being modified and modifications to the information store content could influence retrieval of the content, and wherein the information store is logically external to the interactive voice response system.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: receiving a non-verbal input; determining a second action-object and an associated second value based on the non-verbal input; and retrieving content associated with the second value from the information store.