Broadcasting and conferencing in a distributed environment

A system for broadcasting of audio content via a telephone comprising:

• a broadcasting subsystem comprising:
• at least one encoder;
• at least one of a cache and a multicaster receiving an output from said at least one encoder;
• at least one reception IVR operative to receive said output via said at least one encoder and via said at least one of a cache and a multicaster;
• and
• a VoiceXML interpreter operative to receive said output from said broadcasting subsystem;
• a broadcast IVR operative for voice communication with a telephone and including a VoiceXML interpreter comprising an object module which receives digitized voice from buffers in said IVR and uses said digitized voice to determine a particular audio broadcast, said Voice XML interpreter operative to provide said particular audio broadcast as a streaming audio output to said broadcasting subsystem;
• a VoiceXML document server in communication with said VoiceXML interpreter;
• a resource manager in communication with said VoiceXML document server and said at least one encoder;
• and
• a database in communication with said VoiceXML document server, and wherein said multicaster is in communication with at least one computer and provides said streaming audio output from said broadcasting subsystem.