Speech Coder

Speegle Define is a Firefox extension that gives a spoken definition of a word using Speegle Speech Technology. You highlight the word you would like explained with highlight left click on any internet page you are reading. Right click and choose "Audio Definition" from the pop up menu and its... Platforms: *nix

MWSpeaker project is the worst speech synthesis software ever. You provide a phrase, and MWSpeaker looks up each word in Merriam-Websters online dictionary, downloads the corresponding pronounciations, and plays them in sequence. M-W Speaker takes a phrase (no punctuation please), takes each... Platforms: *nix

eSpeak is a software speech synthesizer for English, and potentially other languages. eSpeak produces good quality English speech. It uses a different synthesis method from other open source TTS engines, and sounds quite different. Its perhaps not as natural or "smooth", but I find the... Platforms: *nix

EFlite is a speech server for Emacspeak and other screen readers that allows them to interface with Festival Lite. EFlite is still in beta, but I have been using it successfully with Yasr to get speech on my notebook under Linux without having to lug my Speak-out around. It uses Festival Lites... Platforms: *nix

Data Coder can convert between a variety of dataformats. Input can be in UTF-8 text, UTF-16 text, hex-encoded text, or base-64. Output can be in UTF-8 text, UTF-16 text, hex-encoded text, hex/ASCII text with 8, 16, or 32-bit chunks, base-64, Adler32 checksum (bothstandard and Apple variants),... Platforms: Mac

Speech Toggle is a very simple freeware menu extra for Mac OS X which enables you to easily toggle Apple's speech recognition (Speakable Items) on and off. The software prevents you from having to make a trip to the System Preferences every time you feel the urge to temporarily use speech... Platforms: Mac

ExtraCHM is a free, full-featured, modern, multi-tabbed eBook reader that allows you to view Compiled HTML (chm) under Windows XP/Vista/7. ExtraCHM offers handy tools for navigation, search, and eBook reading. With ExtraChm you may view documents in a modern multi-tabbed interface, bookmark pages... Platforms: Windows

Hanso Recorder is a feature-rich audio program developed for a wide range of sound tasks such as: converting CDs, tapes, DVDs, live performances, TV sounds, Internet radio, video games and any other sound source into audio files you can easily save on your computer. The software's capabilities... Platforms: Windows, Windows 7

Free, easy-to-use text reader! IVONA Text-To-Speech converts the text on your PC into natural-sounding spoken words. Simply make your selection to listen to news, articles, documents, RSS feeds, e-books, web pages, emails, and much more. Depending on your needs and preferences, you can easily... Platforms: Windows

MegaMind Recorder is an advanced audio-program anyone can use for a multitude of tasks but mainly to record sounds from any sound source under most popular audio formats and convert written texts into speech also into various formats. Whether the sound you want stored on your computer and... Platforms: Windows, Windows 7

LightMan Recorder is the ultimate recording-tool capable of grabbing sounds from any source including CDs, DVDs, tapes, live shows, TV, online radio, video games etc and converting them into audio files easy to be stored on your computer. Furthermore, the app offers text-to-speech conversion... Platforms: Windows, Windows 7

VoiceMate Professional is an application designed soley for Command and Control. Unlike the majority of voice-enabled applications on the market, VoiceMate Professional was made from the ground up to cater for the non-dictation side of speech recognition. With the focal point of the... Platforms: Windows

Koala Player 3.5 XP is windows player for playing movie files with high quality subtitles and uses speech engine. Main Features: Windows 7 support Lector module to which reads subtitles High quality subtitle engine, Subtitle Autoalign, selected font charset saved, Subtitle... Platforms: Windows

AshSofDev Speak is a text to speech and speech recognition application in one program. Platforms: Windows

Server Speak is relies on the functions of Microsoft Speech Platform and is an intuitive text reading software. Users will simply need to type or paste their texts within the main window and Server Speak will read them aloud. Platforms: Windows, Windows Vista, 2008, 7, 7x64

BitRope Recorder is one of the best solutions available for audio-recording and text-to-speech converting tasks. It can record from CDs, tapes, DVDs, TV, radio, etc. and uses all the popular formats MP3, WMA, OGG, VOX, AU, AIFF and other. BitRope Recorder is an easy-to-work-with audio program... Platforms: Windows

icSpeech is multi-parameter speech biofeedback and recording software that lets you view and analyse acoustic and video information on your PC. How does it work? When most people try to improve/modify speech, they rely on auditory feedback to ensure the resultant speech matches their... Platforms: Windows, Windows Vista, XPX64, 7, 7x64

Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech utility that allows you to listen to the written text. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV or MP3 file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from DOC, RTF and HTML... Platforms: Windows

The program converts text to speech. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from CHM, DjVu, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT, PDF and RTF files,... Platforms: Windows

SAPI5-compliant Vietnamese text to speech engine Feature supports: - Synthesize Vietnamese speech with natural voices whose prosodics (duration, pause and amplitude) determined by a technique based on artificial neural networks. - Support SAPI5 interface. - Work with Vietnamese text in Unicode... Platforms: Windows