Read Aloud Software

Animated Alphabet for Windows

Teaches letter sounds using upper and lower case letters. Covers long and short vowels. When the child correctly identifies the letter sound they are rewarded with a silly animation using 3D graphics. Sound is used extensively to help the child identify letter sounds. Help is available as needed by the student. All menu items and directions are read aloud to the student to help pre-readers navigate and operate the program.

Text To Speech Live Player

This software is a text-to-speech translator that lets you direct listen to text in documents, web pages, email messages and more. It can read aloud more than 10 languages. You can batch convert text files to MP3 and WAV files and transfer them to your portable player, then listen to on the way. It will be great in the classroom for language teachers, it can slide read aloud words from a text file for your pupils.

Key2Speak

One of the best writing tips you could ever receive is to have text read aloud to you. Hearing the written word is often more revealing than reading it on a computer screen. This program is a handy companion for whenever you're writing on the computer. It's a utility that uses speech synthesis technology to automatically read a selected piece of text. Key2Speak works with all Windows applications, including word processors, e-mail clients... This shareware is listed under plug-ins, utilities category.

TR Speaker component

TRSpeaker component is an ActiveX control that adds Text-to-Speech capabilities to your application. If your program uses this component, it can read aloud any text data. This control aggregates The MS Direct Speech Synthesis control (DirectSS). TRSpeaker has all the methods, properties and events that the MS Direct Speech Synthesis control has. So you can use it the same way as the DirectSS.

Verbose Text to Speech Software

This professional text to speech application is designed to assist in listening to text. Verbose can be used to read aloud any text. Verbose can also save your text documents or emails to mp3 or wav for you to store them on your Pocket PC or MP3 player, such as an iPod, so you can listen to them on your way home.

Text to Speech MP3 with Natural Voices

Text to speech, text to mp3, batch convert text files to MP3 files. AT&T natural voices (US, UK, German, French, or Spanish) provide you excellent voice. It integrates with MS Word, WordPerfect, Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer, lets you direct listen to text in documents, web pages, emails etc. Transfer MP3 to your player and enjoy story on the way. For language teachers, it can slide read aloud words from a text file for your pupils.

Voice Insert ActiveX

Insert Speech To Text in any Windows Application. Recognizes Full 60000 Word English/Chinese Dictation. Features Limited Dictation, Voice Commands and Passwords Enables Point'n Speak with Read Aloud Target Support. XML Scripting Input for Limited Domain Grammar. Compact Instruction Set With Deriving the Full Power of SAPI 5.1 50 + Input/Output Audio Formats. Packed with VB6.0 Getting Started Tutorials.

Dimwit's Dictionary

When you read the Dimwit's Dictionary, you wonder if you learned English or a foreign language. It features an exhaustive list of words and phrases that are "dimwitticisms" and must be eradicated from our speech and our writing. It's a companion to the Dictionary of Concise Writing. With these two books and through untiring work we may evolve from the everyday English to the elegant English.

Cute Translator

Software that is a powerful handy program to translate text, documents (PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT, RTF, HTM, HTML, TXT) between 12 major languages. Supported languages are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese, with new languages being added all the time. Cute Translator is multilingual speech-enabled, it gets your computer talking to you!

Academic Flashcards

Academic FlashCards is an effective study tool for elementary, secondary, high school, and college students, as well as adults. Use free downloadable databases or create lists of flashcards on any subject, manually entering the terms and definitions, or pasting in lists. Study by manually clicking thru the cards or using an automatic timer. Many customizable options, utilize backgrounds, images and text to speech with Microsoft Agent characters.

Breme Write Right

This software adds as-you-write spelling help through sounds and pictures. Developed by a teacher with an intimate knowledge of dyslexia and other spelling problems, Write Right''s search engine will find you words which others can''t - and offers you multiple choices in easy to follow groups of four - often with pictures, always with sound if you want it. Homonyms are automatically detected and illustrated. Perfect for home or school.

Dialgo Personal Call Center

Answering Machine for scripting your own professional call center business scripts using a voice modem. Features Caller-ID, Wave Playback, Wave Recording, Digit Monitoring, POP3 Email Manipulation, Speech Recognition and Synthesis. This shareware is listed under modem, telephony, phone, speech, voice, wave category.

Verbot 4 Preview

A Verbot® (Verbally Enhanced Software Robot) can be your personal assistant, your teacher, and your friend. Created by Conversive™, Inc. the Verbot is based on more than 10 years of AI experience and development. Verbots combine natural language, artificial intelligence, and real-time animation with voice synthesis to create an engaging virtual personality.

CoolSpeech

This audio software is the text-to-speech player for Windows! It can read out every word or sentence wherever you've just typed, convert text into WAV, read text from Clipboard, tell the time automatically and read your files,URLs or emails at scheduled time.

Read To Me

Be lazy and let Read To Me do all the work for you while your web pages are read aloud. The words are neatly underlined as you read along. Simple to use, just double click on the first word of the page you would like read. The pages are automatically scrolled for you. You can configure how the words are highlighted and which words or symbols to automatically skip. Choose male and female voices from the options dialog.

Speaking Notepad

Hello! I''m Speaking Notepad! I am powerful and handy analog of Microsoft Notepad. I''ll read your TXT, DOC, HTML and RTF documents aloud with SAPI4 and SAPI5-compliant high quality voices, different speed and pitches, read clipboard content, record texts into WAV or MP3 files and even read every word or sentence you are typing. Read e-books and create audio books in one click with my help. I''m sure, we''ll become friends! Speaking Notepad software is a shareware filed under audio, multimedia speech utilities.

Animated Beginning Phonics

Designed for beginning readers (pre-K to 2nd grade), it covers upper and lower case letters, beginning and ending sounds, middle short vowel sounds and beginning reading words. Sound and over 200 3D pictures are used to help the child identify words and letters. A parent/teacher controlled game room with animated puzzles and memory games rewards success.

MAPInotify: Shadow of Power!

This internet utility is an advanced skinable mail-checker utility that can monitor unlimited number of mailboxes, IMAP4 folders or any Microsoft Exchange folders and notify you in any number and combination of ways. It is compatible with Outlook 9x/2000/XP/2003, OutlookExpress, Microsoft Mail and others. Internet shareware listed in e-mail tools.

Language Reader

This software takes advantage of existing speech technologies, provides a richer on-screen reading experience with multilingual voices enabled. Supported voices are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean. You can select text using your mouse, and hear the selected text being read by pressing a key on your keyboard.

Text To Mp3

Converts Text to Wave or MP3 and helps design a read out wave or MP3 book for you. Available in 11 major languages this tool helps solve a lot of your daily problems with electronic text. Using a mp3 player you may now listen to documents, read E-mails or web pages downloaded over the internet . Convert heavy CD literature or virtually any text in any of your subjects. You may even convert your voice to mp3.

Coeli - Stella 2000

Complete astronomy software suite exploring realistic skies in real time, with observing log, Sky Quiz, Live Orbits (orrery), telescope support, spoken pronunciation guide, a half-million word Encyclopedia Astronomica, and concentrated searches embracing planets, comets, asteroids, DSOs, and up to 300,000 stars.