6. The apparatus of claim 5 wherein the operations further comprise: transmitting the first received audio input to the multimodal portal; and receiving extensible markup language text from the multimodal portal based on text conversion of the first received audio input.
5. An apparatus for accessing media comprising: a touch screen display adapted to receive tactile input; a microphone adapted to receive audio input; a memory storing computer program instructions; a processor communicatively coupled to the touch screen display, the microphone, and the memory, the processor configured to execute the computer program instructions, which, when executed on the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: generating a query for video media, the query based on a first received tactile input and parsed text based on a first received audio input; transmitting the query to a multimodal portal; receiving a text response in response to the query, the text response identifying video media based on the query; transmitting a request for additional information related to the text response based on a second tactile input; receiving the additional information based on the request for additional information; and transmitting a command to transmit video to a device in response to a third tactile input and a second received audio input.