Homeboy
HomeBoy is a program that allows children to write short stories in order to have them read back, and play games. It uses Microsoft's "Text-To-Speech" engine and with the help of 4 animated characters, the stories are brought to life with speech and over 120 actions and over 200 animations on... Reads text from clipboard, and with the registered version, you can save and load your stories anytime you wish. ... The game include Tic-Tac-Toe (5 levels of AI) and Riddles (over 150 riddles to solve on 5 levels).
http://www.sibconsult.com/homeboy/HomeBoy_Setup.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

Articulate Spelling
Articulate spelling allows you to practice your spelling at home. An animated character speaks the words for you to spell, and checks that you have spelled them correctly. This can be a great help for children with dyslexia. The educational version supports many users on a network, and... The program requres Microsoft Agent and a speech synthesis engine which are currently available for free on the internet, and an automated installation program makes them simple to install. ... You can also use the program to practice a foreign language by selecting a speech engine for the corresponding...
http://www.wieser-software.com/spelling/hspelling.exe?216.32.71.18.exe - 536Kb - Download - Screenshot

Dialgo Personal Call Center
Answering Machine for scripting your own professional call center business scripts using a voice modem. Features Caller-ID, Wave Playback, Wave Recording, Digit Monitoring, POP3 Email Manipulation, Speech Recognition and Synthesis. With Dialgo Personal Call Center v2. ... The major scriptable items are Caller ID Extraction, Digit Monitoring, Wave Playback, Wave Recording, POP3 Email Manipulation, Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis. ... With its twenty plus script items, Dialgo makes it possible to develop solid and reliable Personal Telephony Call Center Scripts with Fully Integrated...
http://researchlab.swmirror.com/dtam02.zip - 4Mb - Download - Screenshot

PingCOPA Ping and Traceroute
PingCOPA, is an aid to network engineers when monitoring and diagnosing network problems. PingCOPA installs on all 32 bit Microsoft Windows operating systems (except 95). Speech is only available on systems with the Microsoft Text-to-speech engine installed. ... Emails, speech and file logging can be generated at regular intervals using the snapshot facility, or when a connection state changes using the powerful alarm facility. ... Traceroute provides both ICMP and UDP hops. ... A network calculator provides a means to determine subnet masks and ranges, and various command line tools are...
http://www.intervations.com/download/pingcopa/_pingcpa.exe - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

ReadPlease 2003
ReadPlease/ReadPlease Plus 2003 is a fully-featured, easy-to-use, and natural sounding text-to-speech program that can read anything on your screen (as long as it can be copied onto the clipboard). The Plus version is compatible with the AT&T Natural Voices speech engine allowing for some of the... ReadPlease Plus allows you to add your own custom pronunciations, replacement words, and words to be ignored by the program. ... While both versions are accessible from the system tray, only ReadPlease Plus has a docking feature that turns the program into an auto-hiding taskbar placed at the...
www.readplease.com/downloads/setupreadplease.exe - 10Mb - Download - Screenshot

Metris
Metris is a Musical Tetris game. It does not interfere with or depend upon any particular speech engines. It just assumes a screen reader is present. Beating this game leaves you better off, intuitively able to quickly recognize scales, modes and chords. ... but how well? ... Do you have what it takes to become a Metris Master? ... Anyone can do it... ... No jargon, just music.
http://InspiredCode.net/Metris1.exe - 1Mb - 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

Cute Translator
Cute Translator is a powerful handy program to translate text, documents between 12 major languages. Supported languages are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese, with new languages being added... Read aloud translations in American English, British English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Korean, Russian with Microsoft Text-To-Speech engine. ... Automatically download required components such as Microsoft Text-To-Speech engines, cartoon characters...
http://www.authorsoft.com/CuteTranslator.exe - 699Kb - Download - Screenshot

Talking Translator Pro
Talking Translator Pro is an easy to use 4 in 1 language utility which can translate text between 8 languages with 23 language sets, Find meanings of words, Read the contents of files and clipboard. It can also read the translations in its native language with proper accent using the in-built... Also, text-to-speech engines in 12 languages are provided free. ... The Built-in Clipboard and File Reader make it easy to listen to a text file, Rich Text File, web page content or just content on the clipboard.
http://dl.filekicker.com/send/file/142147-1501/ttpro10.zip - 4Mb - Download - Screenshot

Better Text To Wave
Better Text to Wave/Mp3 converts your text into different audio formats (such as mp3) so you can listen instead of read. Have the PC read your emails to you while you work on your project report, get the feel of the latest proposal you have written by having it spoken out loud (lest you happen... Use Text to Wave to convert the latest classic (or the latest how-to guide) into speech, and enjoy reading in an entirely different and comfortable way. ... The first is the traditional component that allows you to incorporate text-to-speech functionality within your applications Highlights...
http://www.bandwidthsaver.com/downloads/ttw002.zip - 16Mb - Download - Screenshot