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A microprocessor based electronic teaching aid which enables a student viewing a display containing text material being studied to designate any word or portion of text for definition or for vocalization by synthesized speech techniques wherein the reading material being studied is supplied in the f

A microprocessor based electronic teaching aid which enables a student viewing a display containing text material being studied to designate any word or portion of text for definition or for vocalization by synthesized speech techniques wherein the reading material being studied is supplied in the form of a programmed Source ROM which contains pointers to the start addresses for the words of the reading material with reference to an internally provided dictionary. A program causes the creation of the text display responsive to the Source ROM data, and includes techniques for being able to define and vocalize any selected word. This combination of hardware and software permits a significant reduction in the cost of this teaching aid by elimination of disk drives or tape drives.

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A new method of using digital electronic apparatus to aid students in learning comprising: storing in a concatenated string in a first memory first binary data pointers representative of a contiguous passage of text, said first binary data pointers including indication of the start addresses for the

A new method of using digital electronic apparatus to aid students in learning comprising: storing in a concatenated string in a first memory first binary data pointers representative of a contiguous passage of text, said first binary data pointers including indication of the start addresses for the text words stored in a second memory; storing in said second memory second binary data being representative of a preselected listing of human language words, said second binary data including data representative of at least two different forms of said human language words; in operation, displaying a selected portion of said contiguous passage of text responsive to a student operator\s portion selection commands, said display being a graphic human language representation of said selected portion; responsive to student operator instructions, designating one word of said contiguous portion of text being graphically displayed; and selectively providing responsive to student operator commands either a synthesized audible output of said designated word or an explanatory graphic representation of said designated word substantially immediately responsive to said student command, said audible output being representative of the spoken form of said designated word and said explanatory graphic representation being textual commentary about said designated one word.