TR BookShelf
By Text-Reader Software
Read text files as fancy designed books on your computer screen. Bookshelf takes plain text (TXT) files and displays the contents as if they were printed in a book. You get two pages (or one if you wish) side by side with generous margins and a clean, uncluttered interface. You can click on the pages to turn them. It has a wide choice of page styles and convenient navigation system. Bookshelf easily allows you to come back to the read books and to open them in the place where you have stopped. Now it can scroll pages and read texts aloud. You can edit books, insert pictures, sounds etc.. TR Dictionary can be used.
TR Speaker component
By Text-Reader Software
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. Why then should I use TRSpeaker instead of DirectSS control? 1. Unlike the DirectSS, TRSpeaker is safe for scripting, initializing and executing. It simply means that you will not get all those annoying messages and warnings, every time you load your web page. 2. It has an additional property page where you can select a desired speech engine (in case you have several). Adjust the pitch, speed and volume. All the parameters will be saved. So, when you start your application again, you will not have to check available speech engines, select one of them, and set these parameters again. Who tried it once, knows what I mean.
Cute Translator
By 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 Chines.
Animated Beginning Phonics
By Flix Productions
Designed for beginning readers (pre-K to 2nd grade) Animated Beginning Phonics covers upper and lower case letters, beginning and ending sounds, middle short vowel sounds and beginning reading words. Sound is used extensively to help the child identify words and letters. Help is available as needed by the student. Pictures of over 200 3D objects are used in the exercises. All menu items and directions are read aloud to the student to help pre-readers navigate and operate the program. When the student has completed a certain number of problems they can visit the game room with puzzles and matching games (animated of course). The game room has a parent/teacher control so the number of problems that have to be completed before the student can play can be controlled (5 - 50, or you can close the game room).