Speech

Language Reader
Free - Authorsoft

Language Reader 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.

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Voicent IVR Studio
Free - Voicent Communications, Inc

IVR Studio for easy development of interactive voice response system. Quick development and deployment of music on hold, voicemail, auto attendant, voicemail to email, and other inbound call applications. Voicent IVR solution offers point-and-click call flow design, ease of installation, and lower cost of ownership.

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MS-Agent Scripting Software
Free - Abhisoft Technologies

MASS is an easy to use tool to create MS Agent scripts with animated, speaking characters. You can easily create agent scripts by dragging the character on screen, selecting a few options and clicking buttons. You don't need any scripting experience, even though advanced users have the option to view and manually edit the generated script as well. The program outputs the complete HTML page, ready to upload to your web site.

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MASH
Free - BellCraft Technologies

Bring your Desktop to Life with Microsoft Agent Animated Talking Characters in 11 Languages! Record and playback entertaining presentations by simply dragging characters around the screen, directing what they say and do. Behind the scenes, MASH does the hard work and can generate your presentations into several scripting languages for use in Websites, Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations, Emails, Visual Basic, Windows Scripting Host, and more.

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DeskBot
Free - BellCraft Technologies

DeskBot is a free, multi-featured Clipboard Reader, Text Reader, Time Announcer, and Internet Explorer Add-In for Microsoft Windows which uses Microsoft Agent Animated, Talking Characters. From the developer of MASH - The Microsoft Agent Scripting Helper.

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TellMeText
Free - BlondieSoft

TellMeText intercepts incoming SMS (text) messages to your Windows Mobile device and reads them out to you before they go to your inbox. This can be really useful in situations where you have your phone but can't or don't want to physically touch it to read incoming messages. (For example, if you're driving a car or eating your lunch). TellMeText can run in the background so it doesn't interfere with your normal use of the device.

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