14. A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising instructions for causing a processor to: receive a user-based selection of a first portion of words in an electronic document, at least of portion of the document being displayed on a user interface on a display device, the electronic document pre-associated with a first voice model; apply, in response to the user-based selection of the first portion of words, a first set of indicia to the user-selected first portion of words in the document; and overwrite the pre-association of the first voice model with a second, different voice model for the first portion of words.
14. A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising instructions for causing a processor to: receive a user-based selection of a first portion of words in an electronic document, at least of portion of the document being displayed on a user interface on a display device, the electronic document pre-associated with a first voice model; apply, in response to the user-based selection of the first portion of words, a first set of indicia to the user-selected first portion of words in the document; and overwrite the pre-association of the first voice model with a second, different voice model for the first portion of words. 19. The computer program product of claim 14 , wherein the computer program product further comprises instructions for causing the processor to: modify one or both of the first and second voice models by at least one of modifying a reading speed associated with the voice model, modifying a volume associated with the voice model, modifying the gender of the character associated with the voice model, modifying the age of the character and modifying a language of the voice model.