Communication arrangement and method for communication systems having an interactive voice function

An internet terminal, comprising at least one processor performing functions embodied by the following components:

• a browser for acquiring screen-oriented web page information from a web server via the internet and for processing the acquired information;
• a communication agent for triggering a browser of a multimedia platform located separately from the internet terminal to acquire corresponding voice-oriented web page information from said web server and for exchanging control and data information to synchronize the processing of the voice-oriented web page information acquired by the multimedia platform with the processing of the screen-oriented web page information acquired by the internet terminal;
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• a voice agent for communication exchange of voice information between the multimedia platform and the internet terminal;
• wherein the processing of the screen-oriented web page information by the internet terminal, the processing of the voice-oriented web page information by the multimedia platform, and the communication exchange of voice information between the internet terminal and the multimedia platform allow the internet terminal to provide a user both screen-oriented access and voice-oriented access to web page information without the need to process voice-oriented web page information at the terminal itself.

A method for processing combined screen-oriented and voice-oriented web page information, comprising:

• transmitting at least the screen-oriented web page information from a web server to an internet terminal for processing by the internet terminal, and transmitting at least the voice-oriented web page information from the web server to a multimedia platform for processing by the multimedia platform, the multimedia platform located separately from the internet terminal;
• exchanging voice information between a voice agent of the internet terminal and a voice agent of the multimedia platform, the voice information being generated by at least one of (a) the internet terminal from user voice input and (b) the multimedia platform using the voice-oriented web page information;
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• transmitting control and data information between the internet terminal and the multimedia platform to influence processing functions of the voice-oriented web page information in the multimedia platform and synchronizing the processing of the voice-oriented and the screen-oriented web page information;
• wherein the processing of the screen-oriented web page information by the internet terminal, the processing of the voice-oriented web page information by the multimedia platform, and the communication exchange of voice information between the internet terminal and the multimedia platform allow the internet terminal to provide a user both screen-oriented access and voice-oriented access to web page information without the need to process voice-oriented web page information at the terminal itself.