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Description of TextAloud

System Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP on minimum P200, 64MB RAM, 10MB Disk Space, and a Sound Card.

Short Description: Convert any text into voice and MP3 or WMA for PC or download to portable player.

Long Description: TextAloud is the leading text to speech program, available with exciting premium voices (including several languages) from ATT Natural Voices, Cepstral and NeoSpeech for the best in computer speech for your PC. TextAloud uses voice synthesis to convert text into spoken audio. Listen or your PC or create MP3 or WMA files for use on portable devices like iPods, PocketPCs, and CD players. A batch file converter lets you convert audio files quickly from any number of documents. A new improved interface with support for skins handles multiple documents with ease and includes voice, pitch and volume adjustments on the main window so you can customize voices while TextAloud is speaking. Change voices within a single document to simulate conversation or multiple speakers. You can open Word, PDF and HTML files directly in TextAloud, and there are also tollbar plugins for Internet Explorer and Firefox to make reading web pages a breeze. A unique Proofread function helps make anything you write mistake free. With TextAloud you can listen immediately, or save to audio files to hear later at your convenience. Instead of the valuable time you spend reading on your computer, imagine being free to relax, get up and stretch, or work on other things while the information you need is read to you in a pleasant, natural sounding human voice. Better still, leave your computer behind. TextAlouds unique Text to MP3 or WMA conversion can save your daily reading to audio files to download to your portable player. Listen to email, online news, or important documents while you exercise, work or commute. TextAloud is easy to learn so you can put it to work for you right away. Everything is user friendly, from the help function to the VCR style playback controls. It has never been easier to keep up with the information you really need.

Description of NextUp Talker

System Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP on minimum P200, 64MB RAM, 10MB Disk Space, and a Sound Card.

Short Description: Software that allows those who have lost their voice to speak with others.

Long Description: NextUp Talker is a Text To Speech application specifically designed for people who have temporarily or permanently lost their voice. With natural, human sounding voices and convenient shortcuts to quickly enter commonly used sentences and phrases, NextUp Talker allows those with vocal impairments to easily communicate with others using a windows PC or Tablet PC. Whether due to ALS, Cancer, Stroke, aphasia, or any of the other all too common problems causing loss of speech, NextUp Talker should help you regain an important part of your life by allowing you to talk with others. Our goal is to provide high-quality but affordable speech solutions for those in need.

Description of NewsAloud

System Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP on minimum P200, 64MB RAM, 10MB Disk Space, and a Sound Card.

Short Description: NewsAloud find news stories, then reads them aloud on your PC or to MP3 files.

Long Description: Stay up to the minute on current events as well as breaking news on the topics that interest you most. NewsAloud finds the stories you want to hear, then reads them aloud or to MP3 for your PDA or portable player. Supports optional premium voices from AT&T, Cepstral and NeoSpeech. NewsAloud personal news agent from NextUp.com finds the stories you want, then reads them aloud in a natural, human sounding voice. In this age of information overload, do you find yourself buried just from trying to keep up with the latest news? How about a solution that uses the unique power of the Internet to deliver personalized content to your desktop, or even better, to your portable device? Stop plowing through email or spending hours surfing the net for the news that interests you. Instead let NewsAloud do it so you can listen while you work on something else, or get your news to go and listen while you excercise, commute, or get outside for a change. Available with exciting premium voices from AT&T, Cepstral and NeoSpeech to add amazing personality to your PC.

Description of WeatherAloud

System Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP on minimum P200, 64MB RAM, 10MB Disk Space, and a Sound Card.

Short Description: Reads weather forecasts and conditions aloud from 7500+ locations worldwide.

Long Description: WeatherAloud reads weather forecasts and conditions aloud from over 7500 locations worldwide. Wake up to your local forecast, listen to hourly temperatures from your favorite vacation spot, or hear conditions where your distant loved ones are. Frequent updates, current temperature in your system tray and complete control over when and what you hear make WeatherAloud a must for all seasons.

Description of StocksAloud

System Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP on minimum P200, 64MB RAM, 10MB Disk Space, and a Sound Card.

Short Description: Reads stock updates and related news headlines aloud for companies you are tracking.

Long Description: StocksAloud helps you manage your investments and business interests by tracking companies for you. Specify stock information to be read aloud for quick updates or full updates as well as reading you headlines for related stories. Stock prices, changes, and trading ranges are updated at specified intervals so you can check easy to read summaries, or relax and listen as StocksAloud reads them to you. Easy viewing of Stock Charts, News, Financial Details and Research make StocksAloud an essential utility.