Apparatus and methods for converting textual information to audio-based output

A system for providing text-to-speech conversion of a body of text, the system comprising:

• a first executable resource;
• and
• a second executable resource, wherein:
• the first executable resource generates text portions from the body of text in response to receiving an initial web request to convert the body of text to speech;
• the first executable resource provides an output in response to generating the text portions, the output comprising a sequence of resource identifiers for the text-to-speech conversion of the text portions, each of the resource identifiers comprising a corresponding one of the text portions and an identity of a resource for use in performing the text-to-speech conversion;
• the second executable resource receives a text portion web request that requests the conversion of at least one text portion to an audio format, the text portion web request comprising the at least one text portion and one of the resource identifiers;
• the second executable resource provides at least one media file for audio output based on the text portion web request;
• and
• wherein the first executable resource generates text portions from the body of text by dividing the body of the text into the text portions, and the output of the first executable resource is a sequences of uniform resource locators for each text portion, the uniform resource locator comprising a name of a resource for converting text-to-speech and the words of a divided text portion separated by delimiters.