Abstract: To create an audio personal newspaper, descriptive information about newspaper articles (such as subject matter, author, source) is extracted from newspaper articles and the text of the newspaper articles is converted into audio files so the user can listen to the content of the newspaper articles. The audio newspaper can be personalized by compiling only the articles matching a user's preferences for subject matter, author, source, and the like. In some embodiments, the audio newspaper may be stored in a data file, which may have advertisements appended to it and which may be stored as a single file so as to prevent the user from skipping over advertisements.