| 摘要 |
A system for the sequential performance of a prerecorded story including text, animations or video, and audio information. The system, preferably implemented in a personal computer, has a continuous mode, in which it performs the story linearly and unbroken; a wait mode, wherein it performs loops of animation or otherwise is on standby for commands from the user; and an interactive mode, in which the system performs animations, sounds or other activities which are tangential to the linear story. Text is displayed on a screen of the system, along with graphics and/or video. The text is pronounced by the system in the course of the sequential performance, and when the computer is in the interactive mode the user may command it to repeat words which are in the text. The repronunciation of the words is the same as the pronunciation in the originally pronounced context. In both the continuous mode and the interactive mode, the pronounced words are highlighted. Certain animations are made inaccessible to the user, even in the interactive mode, until the user has executed prerequisite steps; thus, certain animations are interdependent or nested. The performance of a given animation may depend on whether a particular action has been carried out, or on whether another animation has already been performed, or on a random factor generated by the computer. |
