speech 1.0.2

Speech is a useful and small interface to Microsoft Speech Recognition. It is easy to use and configure program that enables you to control your computer by voice commands. Current version allows user to open any pre-configured program or Web site (in chosen browser).

Emulates with your laptop the professional prompting systems used by political figures, business leaders, television commentators, stage performers.

Developed in collaboration with TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL a non profit organization the worlds leader in improving speech making and lecturingskills.

Includes both Scrolling Speech and Outline modes of speech or lecturepresentation. Advanced graphic presentation capabilities slides & movies ahead oftodays laptop technology will not become obsolete for many years.

SCICA Speech is a free, useful and simple text-to-speech application which allows you to change the volume, rate, and voice of the speaker in addition to saving speech output to a wave file. It can also handle clipboard text as well.

Alien Speech description
Alien Speech - Free Text to Speech software Alien Speech application is designed to be a freeware Text to Speech program.

Simply type in some text or load a text file, and Alien Speech will read it for you, at a speed and pitch of your choice. This text to speech converter is completely free and is based on the microsoft text to speech engine, meaning it is compatible with nearly all recent versions of Windows.

GNOME Speechs purpose is to provide a simple general API for producing text-to-speech output.

The GNOME Speech 1.0 API is currently under development, and it will provide API for both text-to-speech output as well as speech input. It will be heavily influenced by the Java Speech API, both the existing 1.0 specification, and the new 2.0 one which is currently under development.

GNOME Speech 0.4 is made up of three basic parts:

· IDL interface definitions
· libgnomespeech - Convenience library for speech driver development
· Java package to aid in developing GNOME Speech drivers in Java
· Sample driver implementations

Speech Recognition Plugin is a simple implementation of Speech Recognition & Speech Synthesis for REALbasic. It supports Speech Manager 1.5 or higher running on a PPC (including Mac OS X). It implements all feedback routines for cool user interaction.

Whats New in This Release:

· Added the property GetPhonemeOpcode() to get the phoneme about to be pronounced.
· Fixed a problem in which the plugin didnt work as expected under REALbasic 5.5 which could lead to a crash among other oddities.

Speech Recognition HOWTO is a project that contains instructions for using speech recognition software and hardware and their use on Linux systems.

Whats New in This Release:

· Changed license information (now GFDL) and added a new publication.

Speech Dispatchers project goal is to provide a device independent layer for speech synthesis through a simple, stable and well documented interface.

It takes care of most of the tasks necessary to solve in speech enabled applications. What is a very high level GUI library to graphics, Speech Dispatcher is to speech synthesis.

The application simply calls Speech Dispatcher interface functions and Speech Dispatcher handles its requests by sending them to particular synthesizer, handling priorities of the messages, keeping track of their history and providing some extra features like sound icons etc. The application neither needs to talk to synthesizers directly nor to fiddle with all the hard aspects of speech synthesis.

The architecture of Speech Dispatcher is based on a proven client/server model. The clients are all the applications in the system that want to speak. The basic means of client communication with Speech Dispatcher is through a TCP connection using the Speech Synthesis Independent Protocol (SSIP), however client libraries for various languages are also written as a part of the project, so usage is very straightforward. Currently we are working on C, Python, Elisp and Common Lisp library.

Speech Dispatcher is a control application, it doesnt perform the hard task of synthesizing the sound output itself. It can use any particular speech synthesizer (such as Festival, Flite, Epos etc.), through the concept of output modules – you can write an output module for any synthesizer you like.

Additionally, Speech Dispatcher can be configured to switch contexts on one synthesizer when used by multiple clients or to use different synthesizers for different clients (or different languages).

Whats New in This Release:

· This release adds support for eSpeak and IBM TTS.
· There are numerous bugfixes.

Speech Toggle is a very simple freeware menu extra for Mac OS X which enables you to easily toggle Apples 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 recognition.

The software doesnt require an installer; just copy it to your Applications folder and launch. To set it to auto-launch, add it to the Login Items in the Accounts pane of your System Preferences.

Also, check out our speech webpage for more tips and information.


Here are some key features of "Speech Toggle":

· Free!
· Icon grays out when speech recognition is off.
· Option to open speech preferences.
· Turn speakable items on and off.
· Written with Cocoa - native to Mac OS X.
· Universal binary - Intel, PPC native.

A great program for Children to learn English Speaking & Vocabulary. Speech Synthesizer 5.0 is a powerful Text-To-Speech voice synthesizer program that is extremely useful for learning English pronunciation and Vocabulary building. The Software runs on all Windows Systems and has adjustable speaking speeds as well as an aesthetically designed user interface.

Features include Realistic embedded Multiplex Speech Synthesizer, High Quality Sound Output, Multiple Word & Text entry boxes, adjustable speaking speed & voice tone and a Graphical Equalizer sound-output visual display. The program comes with a embedded Speech Engine that gives a very high quality speech synthesis. The software has been designed for ease of use, fast setup and interactivity.

VIMAS speech codec is the DLL for coding/decoding of the digitized speech signals with sampling frequency 8000Hz, 16bit per sample to bitrate 8000bps and vise versa. Codec based on the Algebraic Code Exited Linear Prediction (ACELP) and has embedded Voice Activity Detector (VAD). Main advantages: good quality, low-complexity, easy to use, royalty-free. This version includes the speech coder/decoder DLL, implementation examples and free support.

Text 2 Speech converts text (txt, doc, pdf, htm, rtf) into spoken audio using voice synthesis.

Text 2 Speech also converts text to wav files which can be burned on audio cd or stored on a mp3 player. Sit back and listen to your computer. Proofread your writings. Listen to the text while walking or running.

Total Speech is a new powerful text-to-speech utility.
It reads aloud your txt, html, doc, rtf documents and converts text to mp3. Total Speech can also create MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC, MPC, AAC, APE or MP4 files giving you the chance to listen to your files on iPods, PocketPCs and other protable devices. Make audio file from your text document!

Total Speech reads 8 male and 2 female voices. You may download additional national voices from Microsoft.com. Voices of other text-to-speech tools are supported. Image how productive you can be when all your emails, reports, documents and books can be read aloud for you!

Total Speech is indispensable if you study English as a second language or prepare for some exams. Reduce the eye strain just listening to text, not reading it. Recommend Total Speech to someone with low vision and he or she will be most grateful to you.

Total Speech is quite easy-to-use and requires no special knowledge. You just select the text to be read and make few clicks. Even your granny can do that!

This program is an Apple Scriptable utility and text service to speak text with customizable voices using Apples Text-To-Speech.

Speech Enhancement description
This software offers you the possibility of using a graphic equalizer for removing the stationary hindrances. Speech Enhancement represents a suite of applications that you may use when you want to imrpove the output of your microphone recording.

Single-microphone solution
This can be used for reduction of external hindrances and broadband color noises in speech signal. Controlled level of noises suppression in speech is up to 60 dB.

GritTecs Noise cancellation (NC) technology of single-microphone solution is used for reducing the external hindrances and background noises in speech signal. You can use this software for the selection of speech signal and for the selection of background noises.

Multi-microphone solution
Use this feature when noise from many different sources needs to be canceled. In its simplest form the technique uses two microphone solution.
Speaker is recorded synchronous with the source of hindrance (noise). The first microphone bases near by speaker, but the second one bases near by source of hindrance or noise.

Microphone Array solution
You can use this for reduction of external hindrances and ambient noises in speech source signal. In its simplest form the technique uses two array microphone configurations. By using acoustical beam-forming techniques, the microphone array can "focus" on the speakers position.

Here are some key features of "Speech Enhancement":

· High quality of speech enhancement;
· Low level of speech distortion;
· Operation with low level SNR;
· Separation as cleaned speech signal, so and background noise;
· Three modes adaptation to background noises;
· Controlled level of noise suppression in speech, including broadband color noises up to 60 dB;
· Possibility of using a graphic equalizer for removing the stationary hindrances;
· Easy integration with target applications;
· Fast adaptation to changing of external noises;
· Controlled level of noise suppression in speech;
· Support 2 microphones configurations;
· Directional microphones: unidirectional configuration;
· Distance between microphones not less 4 cm;
· Far-field pickup up to 2 meters;
· Noise suppression of stationary noise up to 15 db and up to 18 db for non-stationary noise


Requirements:

· Signal format: 16-bits linear
· 6 kHz, ..., 48 kHz sampling rate


Limitations:

· 30-day trial period

RSS To Speech will download RSS feeds from any Web site and then read them using Text-to-Speech and shows the feeds on good-looking black screen.

After installation the program will use default computers voice. There are many high quality voices across multiple languages that can be used with the gadget (they must be SAPI 5 compatible).

Speech Master is a powerful application for speech and sound processing and compression.

Speech Master is very useful tool for anyone who wants to organize their sound data in compressed archives.

The quality of the compressed speech is very high and the algorithms was specially developed for the high quality multimedia systems.

Here are some key features of "Speech Master":

· Recording and editing sound phonograms (mono, 11,22,44 kHz, 8 or 16 bits);
· Phonogram analyzing and enhancement (histogram view, compandering, filtering, etc.)
· Compressing speech and sound with several original compression algorithms:
- lossy speech compression more then 8,5 or 17 times for 11 kHz 8 or 16 bits phonograms;
- lossless sound compression for all frequencies 8 bits phonograms;
- lossy speech compression more then 8,8 or 17,6 times for 22 kHz 8 or 16 bits phonograms;
- storing all frequencies 8 or 16 bits phonograms without detected pauses.
· Automatic pause detection and restoration during playback that allows significantly increase the compression ratio.
· Storing compressed data in the form of the dictionaries.
· Any item in the dictionary has the accompanying text. This allows to search dictionaries for the specified text. Any item in the dictionary could be easy located and played back.
· Ability to work with very big phonograms by recording directly to hard disk.


Limitations:

· 20 test compressions

Speech Workshop - the magician builds the voices for your mobile phones and devices, such as the real voice MMS, color ring and truetones for mobile phones.
The personal dubbing studio for your videos and movies.
The anouncer and DJ for your Internet radio station.
The assistant who builds voice indexes and labels for the music in your CD and protable mp3 player.

The text to speech software reads the text for you.
Useful addional toolkits including audio convertor, sentence reader and soundable screen saver.

The text to speech software reads articles for you.
Managing the articles read and to be read for you.
Multipule articles supported.
Smooth scrolling when reading.
Useful addional toolkits including audio convertor, sentence reader and soundable screen saver.