VOICE ACTIVATED SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ENABLE A COMPUTER USER WORKING IN A FIRST GRAPHICAL APPLICATION WINDOW TO DISPLAY AND CONTROL ON-SCREEN HELP, INTERNET, AND OTHER INFORMATION CONTENT IN A SECOND GRAPHICAL APPLICATION WINDOW

摘要

A system is disclosed for displaying a second window of a second application while a first window of a first application has input focus in a windowed computing environment having a voice recognition engine. The system comprises a retriever for launching the second application, a user command receiver for receiving commands from the voice recognition engine, and an application manager. The application manager responds to a command from the user command receiver by invoking the retriever to launch the second application and display the second window while the first window maintains substantially uninterrupted input focus.