audio presentations of a media content delivered onto a device are interrupted using commands not otherwise known to or programmed in to a messaging application used to present the content to the user of the device . in one embodiment , an electronic message having textual content is received at the mobile device , where it is translated into an audio stream , and presented to the user of the device within the messaging application . the user provides , and the application receives a string of identical user commands that are not specifically defined or programmed in as commands within the messaging application , and playback of the audio stream is modified according to the received string of user commands .