World Book Speech Capabilities

This edition of World Book has been enhanced to take full advantage of the Apple Inc. speech technologies built into Mac OS X. You can now search World Book Jaguar Edition using voice commands and touch-typing and have World Book articles read aloud to you. While these capabilities were designed with vision- impaired users in mind, we think that all users will enjoy using them.

Speech Recognition

Apple's speech technologies in Mac OS X include a powerful speech recognition engine. Now you can use speakable commands to navigate your way through World Book. For example, you can say "Hello World Book" to launch the application. Or "Search, please" to open the World Book search window.


A Note on Microphones

The microphones built into iMacs, eMacs, new white iBooks and PowerBooks are perfect for use with Apple's voice recognition systems. If you have a G4 Tower, G5 Tower, or the original version iBook, however, you need to get an external microphone (a microphone built into a headset works best).

Stand by for more information

Watch this space as we'll be posting additional information as we continue to upgrade the speech capabilities of World Book Jaguar Edition. Please send us your feedback to worldbook@mackiev.com.




 
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