Streaming content over a telephone interface

A computer system to deliver streaming content from the Internet to a telephone, the computer system comprising:

• an Internet interface including at least one program to receive the streaming content in response to an implicit request based at least in part on an implicit preference of a user profile from the Internet and extract a streaming audio signal from the streaming content, wherein the user profile is automatically modified to include the implicit preference in response to a user repeatedly accessing the streaming content and without the user explicitly directing the computer system to add the implicit preference to the user profile;
• a telephone interface to send an audio signal to the telephone, the audio signal corresponding to the streaming audio signal;
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• a control subsystem to control the Internet interface and the telephone interface.

A computer system delivering streaming content to a telephone, the streaming content being received from a Internet streaming content server, the computer system comprising:

• means for receiving an Internet access request, the Internet access request based at least in part on an implicit preference of a user profile and corresponding to an Internet site outside of the computer system, wherein the user profile is automatically modified to include the implicit preference in response to a user repeatedly accessing streaming content associated with said Internet site and without the user explicitly directing the computer system to add the implicit preference to the user profile;
• means for receiving the streaming content from the Internet streaming content server, the streaming content including an audio portion;
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• means for sending at least the audio portion of the streaming content to the telephone.