An interactive multimedia book provides hands-on multimedia instruction to
the user in response to voiced commands. The book is implemented on a
computer system and includes both text and audio/video clips. The
interactive multimedia book is accessed by voiced commands and natural
language queries as the primary user input. The displayed text is written
in a markup language and contains hyperlinks which link the current topic
with other related topics. The user may command the book to read the text
and, as the text is read by the voice synthesizer, a word which is also a
hyperlink will change its attributes upon being spoken. The user will be
able to observe or hear this and simply utter the word which is the
hyperlink to navigate to the linked topic.
