Click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, point to Entertainment, and then click Sound Recorder. This enables the richness of the Internet to compensate for weaknesses in the silicon product. On the sound object drop down menu (located above the sound object) click Copy Audio. Its Web link is through the American World Book site.
The French sources of the material also ensure a refreshingly non-American slant on the information, but its Euro-centredness might vex some Asians. For once the promised “virtual reality” is not mere hyperbole. If understanding history is in part sensing the majesty and exoticism of other worlds, then “Discoveries” sets new standards. “Encarta”, once the king of multimedia, has been dethroned.
Download - Easy Setup (553 MB) Microsoft Encarta 95 screenshots: This is a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft Corporation released in multiple editions from 1993 to 2009.
The images and sound are rich and deep, and the text serves mainly to link to the aural and visual. Encarta Dictionary free download - Talking Dictionary, iFinger Collins English Dictionary, Shoshi English To Bangla Dictionary, and many more programs. With three gigabytes of data on five CDs it has plenty of room for 5 1/2 hours of sound, much original music and 1,000 animations. IBM's “Discoveries”, in contrast, extends the frontiers of multimedia. It even lacks the near-mandatory matching website for updated material and hypertext links to the vastness of the wider information world. It makes no pretence to match the market leader, Microsoft's “Encarta”, on the sound and vision part of knowledge. Its spare style emphasising rapid access to text is in the mould of the Britannica CD-ROM. “Encyclopedia Judaica”, which replaces its 26-volume printed parent, a staple for literate Jewish households and libraries, fails disappointingly to fulfil its potential. These modern methods bring a far broader range of material and, even more important for those keen on knowledge, far more possibilities for lateral thinking. “Look it up” now means mastering the intricacies of Boolean search engines, not learning to decipher often poorly constructed alphabetical lists of topics. In this age of digitised information, knowledge, it seems, must be seen and heard, not just read.