1. A method for retrieving information from an information source, the information source being periodically updated with current information, over a network, by speech commands received from a particular user of a plurality of users provided by the particular user via an electronic-communication device, and wherein each of the plurality of users has a respective electronic-communication device, said method comprising: (a) receiving a speech command from each of the plurality of users provided via the respective electronic-communication device, by a speech-recognition engine coupled to a media server, the media server configured to identify and access the information source via the network, the speech-recognition engine adapted to select speech-recognition grammar established to correspond to the speech commands received from the plurality of users and assigned to a desired search; (b) selecting, by the media server, at least one information-source-retrieval instruction corresponding to the speech-recognition grammar established for a particular speech command, the at least one information-source-retrieval instruction stored in a database associated with the media server and adapted to retrieve information; (c) accessing, by a web-browsing server, a portion of the information source to retrieve information of interest requested by the particular user, by using a processor of the web-browsing server, which processor (i) performs an instruction that requests information from an identified webpage, and (ii) utilizes a content extractor within the web-browsing server to separate a portion of the information from other information, the information derived from only a portion of the webpage containing information of interest to the particular user, wherein the content extractor uses a content-descriptor file containing a description of the portion of information and wherein the content-descriptor file indicates a location of the portion of the information within the information source; (d) selecting by the web-browsing server the information of interest from the information source and retrieving only the portion of the information of interest requested by the particular user according to the at least one information-source-retrieval instruction; (e) converting the information retrieved from the information source into an audio message by a speech-synthesis engine, the speech-synthesis engine coupled to the media server; and (f) transmitting the audio message to the electronic-communication device of the particular user requesting information of interest to the particular user.
1. A method for retrieving information from an information source, the information source being periodically updated with current information, over a network, by speech commands received from a particular user of a plurality of users provided by the particular user via an electronic-communication device, and wherein each of the plurality of users has a respective electronic-communication device, said method comprising: (a) receiving a speech command from each of the plurality of users provided via the respective electronic-communication device, by a speech-recognition engine coupled to a media server, the media server configured to identify and access the information source via the network, the speech-recognition engine adapted to select speech-recognition grammar established to correspond to the speech commands received from the plurality of users and assigned to a desired search; (b) selecting, by the media server, at least one information-source-retrieval instruction corresponding to the speech-recognition grammar established for a particular speech command, the at least one information-source-retrieval instruction stored in a database associated with the media server and adapted to retrieve information; (c) accessing, by a web-browsing server, a portion of the information source to retrieve information of interest requested by the particular user, by using a processor of the web-browsing server, which processor (i) performs an instruction that requests information from an identified webpage, and (ii) utilizes a content extractor within the web-browsing server to separate a portion of the information from other information, the information derived from only a portion of the webpage containing information of interest to the particular user, wherein the content extractor uses a content-descriptor file containing a description of the portion of information and wherein the content-descriptor file indicates a location of the portion of the information within the information source; (d) selecting by the web-browsing server the information of interest from the information source and retrieving only the portion of the information of interest requested by the particular user according to the at least one information-source-retrieval instruction; (e) converting the information retrieved from the information source into an audio message by a speech-synthesis engine, the speech-synthesis engine coupled to the media server; and (f) transmitting the audio message to the electronic-communication device of the particular user requesting information of interest to the particular user. 5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: clipping engine adapted to initially generate the content-descriptor file that indicates the location of the portion of the information within the information source.