15. The computer program of claim 13, further comprising instructions to: receive the mixed-media data stream; convert the text of the received mixed-media data stream to synthetic speech; and speak the mixed-media data stream by speaking the synthetic speech for the portions of the original speech where no digitized speech is present in the mixed-media data stream and speaking the digitized speech from the mixed-media data stream where it is present in the mixed-media data stream.
15. The computer program of claim 13, further comprising instructions to: receive the mixed-media data stream; convert the text of the received mixed-media data stream to synthetic speech; and speak the mixed-media data stream by speaking the synthetic speech for the portions of the original speech where no digitized speech is present in the mixed-media data stream and speaking the digitized speech from the mixed-media data stream where it is present in the mixed-media data stream. 16. The computer program of claim 15, farther comprising instructions to: search the text component of the mixed-media data stream for text matching a text search request.