25. A method for converting a textual passage to a synthesized image sequence, comprising: receiving, at processing electronics of a mobile phone, an image of text from a camera of the mobile phone, the text being a passage from a source text; translating the text of the image of text into a machine readable format; receiving auxiliary information; transmitting the text in the machine readable format and the auxiliary information to a remote server; receiving from the remote server model information based on the text in the machine readable format and the auxiliary information; generating the synthesized image sequence based on the model information; and displaying the synthesized image sequence using a display of the mobile phone.
27. The method of claim 25 , wherein the auxiliary information is at least one of an additional passage of text from the source text, an ISBN number corresponding to the source text, a title of source text, a or bar code corresponding to the source text.