9. A method of reading a document to a user, the method being performed by a computer processor, the method comprising the steps of: (a) parsing, by the computer processor, the document into a sequence of phrasal segments using the method of claim 8 and identifying one segment as a current segment; (b) instructing, by the computer processor, a text-to-speech engine to read the current segment aloud to the user; (c) pausing, by the computer processor, for a pre-determined duration after the current segment has been read, the duration being the inter-segment pause duration; (d) setting, by the computer processor, the current segment to be the next segment in the sequence; and (e) repeating steps (b), (c), and (d) until all segments have been read or until the user instructs the processor to stop.
18. The method of claim 9 , wherein the inter-segment pause duration for each pair of segments, other than the pauses between sentences, is the same.