Add Speech Capabilities to your copy of World Book for Mac OS X!

We're pleased to offer you an updater that will allow your copy of World Book to take advantage of the speech technologies built into Mac OS X. After you've run the World Book 6.0.3 updater, which contains the Speech Enabler, you will be able to navigate World Book using voice commands and have any one of World Book's 18,000 articles read out loud to you!

Just download the World Book 6.0.3 update installer below and follow the onscreen instructions. The upgrade contains the Speech Enabler among a number of other enhancements. You can also download the Getting Started guide to get familiar with the new speech features of World Book 6.0.3. Note that this updater will only upgrade World Book version 6.0 (sold only at Macworld New York 2001) and version 6.0.1 (sold in retail stores and online).

  World Book 6.0.3 Updater with Speech Enabler

  Getting Started: Speech Capabilities*

*Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader


A Note on Microphones

The microphones built into iMacs, new 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).

Watch this space as we'll be posting additional information as we implement more functionality. And please send us your feedback to worldbook@mackiev.com.

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