Lists Microsoft Agent Characters (MS Agent Ring) Provides characters to go with text-to-speech functions in Internet Explorer. Warning: Some characters, such as "Joe" and "Kitty," have caused some serious problems with the Awesome Talkster program and should be avoided. 9-02 Materials Multilingual Text-to-Speech Engines (Microsoft) Provides free programs that convert online text to speech in Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Russian, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, and British English. The free voice engines vary in their quality. Some are not very good. For instance, the Korean voice does not seem to recognize the Korean fonts. The Spanish voice, however, reads text written in Spanish in an understandable way. Requires software to connect the voice programs with a browser. Such a program is available for free here. 9-02 Text-to-Speech (Microsoft) Provides software to speak the text in puchased ebooks only. 10-02 Text-to-Speech (Chat to Speech) Converts text to speech by highlighting the text you want spoken. Work automatically with some chat programs. Awesome Library does not endorse this program but provides it as an example. 10-02 Text-to-Speech (ShadiSoft.com - WebSpeak) Provides a character, called an agent, that talks when visitors open your Web page. Awesome Library does not endorse this program but provides it as an example. 10-02 Text-to-Speech - How It Works (Microsoft) Describes how software converts text on a page to voice. 10-02 Text-to-Speech Synthesis (Bell Labs) Provides information on text-to-speech engines. 9-02 Voices for Text-to-Speech (ByteCool.com) Provides free text-to-speech voices. 9-02 Voices for Text-to-Speech (NextUpTech.com - TextAloud) Provides text-to-speech in MP3 format. Awesome Library does not endorse this program but provides it as an example. 10-02 Voices for Text-to-Speech (ReadPlease.com) Provides text-to-speech for information copied to the clipboard in Windows. Awesome Library does not endorse this program but provides it as an example. 10-02 Purchase Resources Microsoft Agent Resources (Bellcraft.com - MASH) Provides Microsoft Agent Scripting Helper to gain control over text-to-speech characters without programming skills. Awesome Library does not endorse this product, but provides it as an example. 9-02 Text-to-Speech (SoftVoice) Provides voices to license with software. Awesome Library does not endorse this program but provides it as an example. 10-02 Text-to-Speech (Zero2000 Software) Provides free trial version of ATTS text-to-speech program. The real version costs 30 dollars. Awesome Library does not endorse this program but provides it as an example. 10-02 Text-to-Speech Control Panel (JustSpeak.com) Provides a control panel to modify text-to-voice pronunciation. Awesome Library does not endorse this program but provides it as an example. 10-02 Text-to-Speech Control Panel (Microsoft) Provides an icon in your Control Panel for Windows to allow you to modify text-to-voice pronunciation of words you choose to change. Awesome Library does not endorse this program but provides it as an example. 10-02 Text-to-Speech Synthesis (EnableMart.com) Lists products providing a voice to Windows programs. Awesome Library does not endorse these products, but includes them as examples. 9-02 Text-to-Speech With Lip Sync (CrazyTalk) Allows digital images to be lip sync'ed with a text-to-speech engine. Awesome Library does not endorse this program but provides it as an example. 10-02

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