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title: "The American Heritage Talking Dictionary"
brand: "the american heritage talking dictionary"
price: "VT738"
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reviews_count: 8
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# The American Heritage Talking Dictionary

**Brand:** the american heritage talking dictionary
**Price:** VT738
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

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- **What is this?** The American Heritage Talking Dictionary by the american heritage talking dictionary
- **How much does it cost?** VT738 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
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## Description

Talk about not getting a word in edgewise, this chatty upgrade of the bestselling CD-ROM dictionary is now part of the Compton's Home Library series and deserves a place on your software library shelf because of the many ways it brings words to life. More than 200,000 definitions? An integrated thesaurus with more than 1.5 million synonyms and antonyms? Big deal! It's the spoken pronunciations of some 90,000 words (in proper human and not robot-computer voices) that stand this dictionary on its ear-and makes it especially useful for children. New to this upgrade: Some 3,000 images, photographs, maps and flags that illustrate the meaning of words; and it can be launched with one click directly from Microsoft Word (version 6.0 or higher). The search capabilities are easy and include partial-word and alternative-spelling finders. If you're going to buy a computer dictionary, this one will speak to you like none other. (Don Oldenburg, Parents' Choice)

## Features

- Nearly 200,000 words, complete with definitions
- Pronounces words for you as definitions are displayed
- Contains Roget's Thesaurus with over 1.5 million words
- More than 13,000 geographic entries, including cities, countries, and mountains
- Helps you build vocabulary with Word of the Day

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## Customer Reviews

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    Not for windows 7
  

*by C***T on Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2014*

The only problem was it would not install on windows 7, but I leave a copy in my cd drive and it works great without being installed

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    Run Dictionary on Windows 7 & 8 if you manually install
  

*by C***. on Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2014*

Comments~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* I have been using this program for years even on Windows 7 & 8 without the CD and I love it.  It is fast with not Bloatware.  I wish I could update the dictionary, it is a little dated.Let me tell you how to install it and run it from the hard drive without the CD.  Installation must be done manually.  You must be experience in Windows Explorer (File management).Notes & Assumptions~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* Know this program dates back to Window 3.1* This is a 16 bit program* It still uses 8.3 file format* These Direction are based on install program to the "C" Drive* The help file (AHD4.HLP) is no longer supported in Windows 7 & 8.  You need a update to Windows to use this file. See  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607/en-usProcedures~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* Create a directories on the C drive  C:\Prog-16B\AHEDW* Copy (Program) the Folder from the CD to the Hard drive  * From CD  ..\AHEDW95\*.*  {include the folders}  * To HardDrive  C:\Prog-16B\AHEDW* To Create a Start Menu Folder and shortcuts. Remember, to edit the Start menu, it is located at (Note it is a hidden folder):  “C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs”* The items you might want to create short for are:  Help file ---- C:\Prog-16b\AHEDW\AHD4.HLP  Program --- C:\Prog-16b\AHEDW\AHD4.EXE* Run the Program (C:\Prog-16b\AHEDW\AHD4.EXE) for each user. You will get an error message, ignore it and start the program.* After you run the program (for each user), to correct the above error (Location of the Picture, Voice, and Sound folders). You need to edit the registry while you are logined in for each user.  The best way to do this is from the command prompt.  Run the following three commands  REG ADD "HKCU\Software\SoftKey\The American Heritage Dictionary\Picture"  /v Path  /t REG_SZ  /d C:\Prog-16b\AHEDW\pictures  /f  REG ADD "HKCU\Software\SoftKey\The American Heritage Dictionary\Sound"  /v Path  /t REG_SZ  /d C:\Prog-16b\AHEDW\voice  /f  REG ADD "HKCU\Software\SoftKey\The American Heritage Dictionary\Video"  /v Path  /t REG_SZ  /d C:\Prog-16b\AHEDW\Video  /fHope this help.  If I have not made any typos, it should work.

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    Not for 64-bit machines
  

*by M***M on Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2013*

This is indeed a wonderful program, but it doesn't seem to be compatible with 64-bit PCs. I assume that "Math-Physics Prof" is successfully running it under Windows 7 because it's on a 32-bit machine. I'm *really* going to miss this program.

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