Patent ID: 7039589

Claim:
A computer system for presenting an interactive multimedia book to a user comprising: a display for displaying text and video clips of the interactive multimedia book, some words of the text being hyperlinks to anchors in text not currently displayed; a voice recognition function installed on the computer system; a speech synthesis function installed on the computer system; a microphone for inputting voiced commands by the user to the voice recognition function; at least one speaker for outputting synthesized speech from the speech synthesis function; and an application program running on a central processing unit of the computer system for responding to a voiced command recognized by the voice recognition function to read text on a displayed page of the interactive multimedia book by causing the speech synthesis function to read the text, the application program identifying words which are active hyperlinks in the text on a displayed page as the text is being read and activating at least one attribute of a word identified as an active hyperlink to indicate to the user of the book that the word is a hyperlink, the application responding to a voiced hyperlink recognized by the voice recognition function by moving to another page of the book which contains an anchor for the hyperlink.