Patent ID: 7110945

Claim:
An interactive book comprising: at least one display device onto which a series of words are displayed, said series of words constituting a story, at least a portion of which are visible at any one time on said display device; a microphone; a speaker; an electronic speech recognition and conversion device in communication with said microphone for recognizing the spoken word generated by a first individual reciting the story and producing a digital output corresponding to the spelling for each of the spoken words; a memory device in connection with said speech recognition device for locating each of said digital outputs therein and determining where each of the written equivalents of said spoken words would be located on said display device; a switch connected to said memory device for initiating the conversion of said digital outputs back to the spoken word through said electronic speech recognition and conversion device and said speaker as well as displaying at least a portion of said series of words on said display; and an input means providing a sound generated from said speaker when at least a portion of said series of words produced from said speaker and displayed on said at least one display device reaches a particular point, informing a second individual that the entirety of said at least a portion of said series of words have been verbalized.