pVoice 2.2 Beta 5

pVoice is an application for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).Disabled people who cannot speak and have very little possiblities to operate a computer can use pVoice by selecting photos or symbols to generate speech output.
Common symbol languages like PCS, Bliss or Vijfhoek can be used with pVoice. You need to purchase these symbol-libraries from the respective manufacturers though. If you want a cheap solution, you can download symbols from the Picto-archive (dutch) For your convenience I created a zipfile of the pictos from this site, which you can also download from the downloadpage.
Although pVoice 2.2 is still under development, you can already get a sneak preview of this by downloading the latest betaversion. pVoice 2.2 provides a large number of improvements over 2.1, amongst which:
New roundcornered look and feel
More input possibilities (single swich operation, keyboard and touchscreen combined with the input possibilities of pVoice 2.1, namely mousebuttons and the headsupport of the Adremo powered wheelchair)
Possibility to load different datafiles (vocabularies)
Numerous improvements in the editmode, amongst which remembering the settings of previously created themes
Buttons can now contain text-only (images are optional)
You no longer need to have Administrator rights on Windows XP/NT/2000 to use pVoice
Support for Microsoft SAPI4 en SAPI5 speech synthesizers (the Microsoft Agent is now optional)
Support for a lot more image fileformats, amongst which (transparent) PNG, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, WMF, EMF, PCX, TGA, BMP, ICO and SVG
Support for plugins