A text mining tool is operated on a given text to obtain words and/or phrases ranked by frequency of occurrence. Thereafter, a text-to-speech converter is used to speak each word/phrase output by the text mining tool, and how loud each word/phrase is spoken depends on a corresponding frequency which is additionally output by the text mining tool, for each word/phrase. In certain embodiments, words/phrases are categorized into multiple themes by the text mining tool, and in these embodiments corresponding multiple voices and/or accents are used, to indicate via sonification, a specific theme of each word/phrase being spoken.
Sonification of words and phrases by text mining based on frequency of occurrence