Animated Alphabet for Windows
Teaches letter sounds using upper and lower case letters. Covers long and short vowels. When the child correctly identifies the letter sound they are rewarded with a silly animation using 3D graphics. Sound is used extensively to help the child identify letter sounds. ... All menu items and directions are read aloud to the student to help pre-readers navigate and operate the program. ... Help is available as needed by the student.
ftp://ftp.a-direct.com/adds/alphaw.zip - 9Mb - Download - Screenshot

Key2Speak
One of the best writing tips you could ever receive is to have text read aloud to you. Hearing the written word is often more revealing than reading it on a computer screen. This program is a handy companion for whenever you're writing on the computer. ... It's a utility that uses speech synthesis technology to automatically read a selected piece of text. ... Key2Speak can also automatically read copied text from the clipboard. ... For example, you can have it read text after periods, commas or question marks are typed.
http://www.madoogali.com/Key2Speak/K2S_SetupUS.exe - 5Mb - Download - Screenshot

Text To Mp3
Text To Wave Concept: Converts Text to Wave, MP3 or WMA Files and helps design a read aloud MP3 book for you. Available in 11 major langauges this software tool helps solve a lot of your daily problems with electronic text. Using a mp3 player you may now listen to documents, read E-mails or web... Open the list whenever you desire and listen aloud all pages. ... In a few steps you can convert a text page to a mp3 file and save the file in a specified directory. ... Convert all of the pages and save all the mp3 files as a play list book.
http://www.bandwidthsaver.com/downloads/ttw002.zip - 14Mb - Download - Screenshot

Language Reader
Language Reader takes advantage of existing speech technologies, provides a richer on-screen reading experience with multilingual voices enabled. Supported voices are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean. ... Easy-to-use built-in editor to edit text to be read aloud. ... FEATURES: Read text (word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, document) using Microsoft Text-To-Speech technology. ... You can select text using your mouse, and hear the selected text being read by pressing a key on your keyboard.
http://www.authorsoft.com/LanguageReader.exe - 642Kb - Download - Screenshot

TR BookShelf
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. ... Now it can scroll pages and read texts aloud. ... Bookshelf easily allows you to come back to the read books and to open them in the place where you have stopped. ... You can edit books, insert pictures, sounds etc.. ... TR Dictionary can be used.
http://www.text-reader.com/downloads/setup_bookshelf__eng.exe - 893Kb - Download - Screenshot

StocksAloud
StocksAloud is the great new talking program that helps you manage your investments and business interests by tracking companies for you. It let's you specify stock information to be read aloud for quick updates or full updates as well as listen to related news headlines. ... Stock prices, changes, and trading ranges are updated at specified intervals so you can check easy to read summaries, or relax and listen as StocksAloud reads them to you. ... Get StocksAloud now for the power to track your investments and business interests right on your PC.
http://dl.downloadhosting.com/download/nextup/StkAl160.exe - 4Mb - Download - Screenshot

Aurora Suite
Affordable, Effective Assistance for Communication, Learning Disabilities and Dyslexia. Read: If you want to read a book or magazine you've scanned, email from friends, web pages, or documents in your word processor, Aurora Echo can help. Just highlight what you want to read, push a button, and... As you write, your words and sentences can be read back aloud so you can be sure that what you wrote is what you meant to. ... Echo's screenreader can also read menus, dialog boxes and more from your applications.
http://www.aurora-systems.com/2005/files/aurorasuite2005.0003.exe - 16Mb - Download - Screenshot

ReadingBar
Full-featured, easy-to-use, natural sounding text-to-speech toolbar for Internet Explorer ® reads any web page aloud to you. ReadingBar 2 is multi-lingual, can translate web pages into four languages for you and is compatible with the AT&T Natural Voices speech engine. ... If things seem too large or small on your screen, you can zoom in and out using the custom zoom tool, which can easily snap back to the original position with the click of a button. ... Customize your own web pages using VXML and ReadPlease Command Script.
www.readplease.com/downloads/SetupReadbar.exe - 16Mb - Download - Screenshot

MailAssistant (Christmas Edition)
MailAssistant (Christmas Edition) is an innovative email notification sofware that reads out email messages aloud and notifies you of new messages as they arrive using an animated Santa character. You can quickly preview the sender's address, subject, size and contents of each message and... MailAssistant is a desktop enhancement tool that can read any text file, webpages, documents and clipboard with natural-sounding, understandable voice. ... Seperate versions are available for British English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Japanese and...
http://www.mailvalley.com/maspeakx.exe - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot

E-mail Talker
New version of popular email notification software for Hotmail, POP3 accounts. Your favorite speaking animated character reads aloud incoming emails. Features antispam filtering, simultaneous account checking. Lets you listen to your emails, web pages, documents, help files or anything else you... Select your favorite character! ... E-mail Talker Online Manual (HTML help) contains Character Gallery with 30 characters.
http://www.scosoft.com/EmailTalker40.exe - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot