Microsoft Text To Speech and Power Text To Speech Reader Software for Windows

SpeaktoText
$34.99 - Coolsoft, LLC

With SpeakToText 2.0, you can dictate and copy text to almost any application. You can even speak and send chat messages all without touching your mouse or keyboard. Our specialized WAVE to text feature allows you to convert a WAVE file into text. And as we keep improving SpeakToText?s update feature finds and installs updates automatically. SpeakToText 2.0 gives you much of the functionality of expensive speech recognition products at a fraction of the cost.
SpeakToText? 2.0 lets you dictate and copy text to almost any application, including most popular chat programs, email clients and even Microsoft Word. Now, you can write letters, term papers, emails, chat messages and many other things just by speaking to your computer. You can even control the program and many of its dialog boxes by speech, and dictate directly into some programs. This feature packed program includes the following features. Copy text to Microsoft Word entirely by speech. Dictate directly into some applications. Compose and send chat messages entirely by speech. Works in AOL Instant Messenger, Microsoft Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and ICQ. Detailed Manuals and How-to Videos to help you learn how to set up and train speech recognition and use SpeakToText? 2.0 to help you get the most out of using speech with your computer. Update feature lets you check for updates. When SpeakToText? 2.0 finds an update, it automatically installs it for you. Speech recognition technology from Microsoft.

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Total Speech
$24.5 - Helmsman

Total Speech is a new powerful text-to-speech utility. It reads aloud your txt, html, doc, rtf documents and converts text to mp3. Total Speech can also create MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC, MPC, AAC, APE or MP4 files giving you the chance to listen to your files on iPods, PocketPCs and other protable devices. Make audio file from your text document!

Total Speech reads 8 male and 2 female voices. You may download additional national voices from Microsoft.com. Voices of other text-to-speech tools are supported. Image how productive you can be when all your emails, reports, documents and books can be read aloud for you! Total Speech is indispensable if you study English as a second language or prepare for some exams. Reduce the eye strain just listening to text, not reading it. Recommend Total Speech to someone with low vision and he or she will be most grateful to you. Total Speech is quite easy-to-use and requires no special knowledge. You just select the text to be read and make few clicks. Even your granny can do that!

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2nd Speech Center
$39.95 - Zero2000 Software

Converts any text into spoken words or MP3/WAVE audio files! 2nd Speech Center is an award-winning text-to-speech player that lets you listen to documents, e-mails or web pages instead of reading on screen. In addition to text, 2nd Speech Center also allows you to convert text to MP3 or WAVE files for listening later with your portable MP3 player. 2nd Speech Center can directly open Plain Text files (.txt), Microsoft Word files (.doc), PDF files (.pdf), EMail files (.eml), Rich Text files (.rtf), HTML files. For Microsoft Internet Explorer users, 2nd Speech Center supplies a handy toolbar plug-in for Internet Explorer. 2nd Speech Center supports dozens of male, female and robotic voices for over 11 languages. 2nd Speech Center can monitor the Windows Clipboard and automatically process its contents. This feature makes it easy to read web pages, e-mail messages, documents and much more. Additionally, 2nd Speech Center is integrated with many useful and timesaving features, such as talking alarm clock, talking reminder and powerful command lines for advanced users. And don't worry, the intuitive VCR style user interface is very easy to use.

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CallerID Monitor
$19.95 - ST-Tools

CallerID Monitor is a powerful full-featured Caller ID detection software that will turn your PC into advanced Caller ID device. Identify callers using CallerID Monitor before you answer to call. It uses your modem or ISDN adapter and Caller ID service provided by your local phone company in order to identify who's calling. You can use CallerID Monitor while you're online. If you have ISDN adapter, Call Waiting feature is supported. This way you can know who's calling while you surfing on the Internet! CallerID Monitor has an option to automatically block/reject incoming calls from callers you put in Black List. CallerID Monitor has its own built-in Address Book that will keep your contacts in one place and always easy available. It allows you to enter more then 50 different informations per contact including contact personal info, company info, up to 8 phone numbers, internet related informations, contact notes or description... This full-featured Address Book allows you to exchange contacts with those from Microsoft Outlook. CallerID Monitor features various call announce options per-contact based. You can choose how you want your contact to be announced. Choose between group sound, specific custom sound or computer-generated voice using text-to-speech engine. Many similar programs have call announcement option, but can you SEE who's calling? With CallerID Monitor you can! Just set photo or other picture for particular contact. Next time this contact call's, you'll see his photo. Want to know who called few weeks ago? CallerID Monitor's Call List will log and save all your incoming call information. Program will manage all incoming calls for you, even if you're not around. You can review your calls anytime you want to. Your personal calls history!

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Cute Translator
$39.95 - Authorsoft

Cute Translator is a powerful handy program to translate text, documents 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 makes translation fast. The actual translation sever is online, so you will need an active Internet connection, but you won't have long to wait, even lengthy translation results are returned in seconds.

Cute Translator is multilingual speech-enabled, it gets your computer talking to you!

With version 3.01, now you can open documents in Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF, TXT, HTML format and get them translated.

Features:

FEATURES:

Translate documents of popular formats.

Translate email, chat.

Copy and paste or type anything and get translated.

Perform any to any translation in 12 languages.

Read aloud translations in American English, British English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Korean, Russian with Microsoft Text-To-Speech engine.

Cartoon characters, Merlin, Robby, Peedy, and Genie, who serve you as Assistant powered by Microsoft Agent technology.

Software interface in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch.

Conversion between Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

Swap source & target language with a mouse click.

Easy-to-use built-in editor to edit translations.

Send translations to printer.

Automatically download required components such as Microsoft Text-To-Speech engines, cartoon characters direct from Cute Translator web site.

Various options such as copy result to clipboard after translation, read aloud result after translation

Live updater to detect new version available on this web site.

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TradeTrakker Deluxe
$34.95 - Hagel Technologies

TradeTrakker is an easy-to-use, yet powerful financial portfolio management application. Whether you are new to investing or an experienced trader, TradeTrakker will help you monitor and analyze your stock and mutual fund positions, providing powerful insight into how well your investments are performing.

TradeTrakker can monitor multiple portfolios and watch lists with up to fifty different parameters, including buy & sell, gains & losses, stock splits & dividends and total portfolio value for both long and short positions. Stocks and mutual funds can be arranged into specific groups within a portfolio and sorted on any parameter. All stock positions as well as up to 100 key market indices can be automatically updated, on any schedule from once a day to once per minute. Stocks can now be tracked from most major world stock exchanges. An optional ticker display can be configured with any stocks or indexes as desired.

TradeTrakker includes a wizard option to simplify data input. Set alerts based on stock price or volume which can be announced with Microsoft Agent text-to-speech capabilities! Look up stock symbols and retrieve quotes for your favorite stocks in real time. Track your portfolio's cash reserve account too! Transaction History section and optional indicators for capital gains tracking. Customizable links to stock news, charts and your personal online trading account directly from TradeTrakker's main window. Exclusive "Portfolio Snapshots" saves stock database in read-only format for record keeping purposes, print the portfolio direct from TradeTrakker's main window, or export all data to Microsoft Excel. Full integration with Notepager software is now available.

TradeTrakker is the ideal way for investors all over the world to keep track of their investment accounts and analyze their performance.

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