14. A task manager for an information system of a vehicle comprising: means for receiving at least one of (i) input representing a query or command to the information system and (ii) input representing an operating state of the vehicle; means for generating two or more audio output tasks to be played by an audio output based on the input, each of the audio output tasks including data representing at least one spoken word, an event after which to play the audio output task and a priority parameter; means for scheduling the audio output tasks for play based on the events and priority parameters; and means for playing the audio output tasks based on an occurrence of the events and a comparison of at least some of the priority parameters.
14. A task manager for an information system of a vehicle comprising: means for receiving at least one of (i) input representing a query or command to the information system and (ii) input representing an operating state of the vehicle; means for generating two or more audio output tasks to be played by an audio output based on the input, each of the audio output tasks including data representing at least one spoken word, an event after which to play the audio output task and a priority parameter; means for scheduling the audio output tasks for play based on the events and priority parameters; and means for playing the audio output tasks based on an occurrence of the events and a comparison of at least some of the priority parameters. 17. The task manager of claim 14 further comprising means for identifying data representing at least one of a phoneme, syllable, word, sentence, paragraph and end within the data representing the at least one spoken word of a currently playing audio output task.