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X-Plane 9.40 RC-14
X-Plane is designed to bring you an addictive general-aviation flight sim which comes with hardware-accelerated texture-mapped graphics and dynamic speech synthesis more>>
X-Plane 9.40 RC-14 brings you an addictive general-aviation flight sim which comes with hardware-accelerated texture-mapped graphics and dynamic speech synthesis. It also features full-planet terrain-mapped scenery, helicopters, and the widest range of airplanes available in flight simulation. X-Plane will keep your eyes popping out for hours.
Enhancements:
- No crash when AI airplanes have panel tooltips. (This should fix a number of crashes during startup.)
- No incorrect log warnings when loading liveries.
- Updated the command list.

CK's Text-to-Speech to MP3 0.93
CKs Text-to-Speech to MP3 is created to make your life more comfortable. more>>
CK's Text-to-Speech to MP3 0.93 is created to make your life more comfortable.
This package includes several applications:- Safari Selection to MP3 File
Just select some text in Safari, then run this program to make an MP3 file. - Clipboard to MP3 File
Select text in any application, copy it, then run this program to convert it to an MP3 file. - Drag-n-Drop-Text to AIFF
Drag text files and convert them to AIFF files spoken by MacinTalk. - TextEdit to MP3
Converts whatever is in TextEdit to an MP3 file spoken by MacinTalk. - TextEdit to AIFF
Converts whatever is in TextEdit to an AIFF file spoken by MacinTalk. - DJ Track Names to AIFF
Gives your iPod or iTunes a DJ announcing tunes and artists.
Major Features:
- It is pretty much a "hands off" operation
- It'll use your preferred voice, chosen in System preferences.
- It'll use your preferred MP3 encoding rate, chosen in iTunes.
- Make podcasts of blogs or other web pages.
- Make your own "audio books" from downloadable free e-texts of books.
- Create sound files saying every track in a playlist, so you can get a DJ on your iPod.

X-Plane 9.40b8
X-Plane is an interesting game that attracts a large number of gamers with its hardware-accelerated texture-mapped graphics, dynamic speech synthesis, full-planet terrain-mapped scenery, helicopters, and the widest range of airplanes available in flight simulation. more>> <<less
With hardware-accelerated texture-mapped graphics, dynamic speech synthesis, full-planet terrain-mapped scenery, helicopters, and the widest range of airplanes available in flightLicense:update/patch

Proloquo 2.0.2
Proloquo 2.0.2 is a useful tool that help disable people who cannot speak that provides: a full-fledged communication system (AAC) for people who cannot speak; or provides speech feedback in any application while typing for children and people with learning disabilities; and can serve as a talking word processor; (4) provides an advanced, multilingual speech engine for our KeyStrokes on-screen keyboard and our SwitchXS switch access solution. more>> <<less
Praat 5.1.11
Praat is a sophisticated computer program with which you can analyse, synthesize, and manipulate speech, and create high-quality pictures for your articles and thesis. more>>
Praat 5.1.11 is a sophisticated computer program with which you can analyse, synthesize, and manipulate speech, and create high-quality pictures for your articles and thesis.
Major Features:
- Speech analysis:
- spectral analysis (spectrograms)
- pitch analysis
- formant analysis
- intensity analysis
- jitter, shimmer, voice breaks
- cochleagram
- excitation pattern
- Speech synthesis:
- from pitch, formant, and intensity
- articulatory synthesis
- Listening experiments:
- identification and discrimination tests
- Labelling and segmentation:
- label intervals and time points on multiple tiers
- use phonetic alphabet
- use sound files up to 2 gigabytes (3 hours)
- Speech manipulation:
- change pitch and duration contours
- filtering
- Learning algorithms:
- feedforward neural networks
- discrete and stochastic Optimality Theory
- Statistics:
- multidimensional scaling
- principal component analysis
- discriminant analysis
- Graphics:
- high quality for your articles and thesis
- produce Encapsulated PostScript files
- integrated mathematical and phonetic symbols
- Programmability:
- easy programmable scripting language
- communicate with other programs
- (the sendpraat source code)
- create hypertext manuals with sound I/O
- Portability:
- machine-independent binary files
- read and write many sound and other file types
- Configurability:
- grow or shrink menus
- save prefs for fonts, views, sound devices
phoneticians to analyze, synthesize, and manipulate speech and create high-quality images for their articles and doctoral theses. Praat 5.1.02 is a mighty effective andLicense:Freeware

TextSpeech Pro 3.4.4
Easy to use application that will allow your Mac to read text using natural sounding voices. more>>
Major Features:
- Built on the latest text to speech technology
- Synthesize text-to-speech from any document format (text, Microsoft Word, PDF, Microsoft Excel, RTF, etc) using a variety of voices and languages
- Read web pages using integrated text-to-speech tools
- Export the synthesized speech from documents to a variety of audio file formats in three modes (quick, normal and batch)
- Create and modify conversations, bookmarks and pauses (silence breaks) in a document using an advanced text-to-speech editor
- Modify speech properties (voice, speed, volume, pitch, word highlighting) and speech entities (bookmarks, conversations, pauses) on the fly
- Extract text from scanned documents and convert it to speech or audio files
- Create custom pronunciations using a universal correction system
- Save the created documents with all specified voice settings and entities (voice type, pitch, speed, volume, bookmarks, conversations, pauses, word highlighting) for future use
- Pause, resume or stop the speaking voice
- Tune the speech output using standard XML tags
- Use a fully featured document editor with many text processing features (text manipulation, spell checker, print and print preview, find and replace, go to line..., customizable fonts, zoom capabilities, and document properties view)
- Mark copied text to be automatically transferred and converted to speech
- Access previously used documents from a high-capacity document history
- Utilize a rich and fully configurable user interface (UI) equipped with customizable window docks, toolbars, a multi-tabbed document interface and a layout-saving framework
- Web integration improved.
- Language support improved.
License:Freeware
Talk To Me 1
Free Yahoo! talking widget for your Mac more>> Free Yahoo! talking widget for your Mac
Talk To Me is a free Yahoo! widget that talks to you. Just type text into the speech bubble and press the "Talk To Me!" Its always funny to hear the computer voice!
System requirements:
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Enhancements
- This the first version.
- Let me know of any bugs.
Java Speech API 0.1
A wrapper for vendors to simplify usage of the Java Speech API more>> A wrapper for vendors to simplify usage of the Java Speech API
Java Speech API is a wrapper for vendors to simplify usage of the Java Speech API (JSR 113). Note that the spec is an untested early access and that there may be changes in the API.
Enhancements
- First release of a base layer for sphinx4 and FreeTTS.

JayReader 1.0B
JayReader is a tool to read texts. more>>
Major Features:
- Plays speech from the start of the document, the selected text, or from the cursor to the end of the document.
- You can pause or continue that speech.
- You can change the speed of the speech.
- It will Highlight what it is saying if you want.
- Nothing else that isn't just a giveaway from the OS X text input system.
Enhancements:
- Initial release
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
Webvoice 1.0
Free and open source text to speech app more>> Free and open source text to speech app
Webvoice is a text to speech CGI program. You can embed a link in a HTML page to send things you want to say, via sound. No software is required on the client side.
Webvoice needs Festival and Sox are on the server. Webvoice has its own interface, if you need one.
Chipmunk BASIC 3.6.4b8
Chipmunk Basic for Mac OS is an old fashioned Basic interpreter which runs on almost all Macs. Supported features include AppleScript, graphics, sprites, sound, speech and OOP (object oriented more>> Chipmunk Basic for Mac OS is an old fashioned Basic interpreter which runs on almost all Macs. Supported features include AppleScript, graphics, sprites, sound, speech and OOP (object oriented programming). Versions for System 6.0.7 thru Mac OS X 10.4, and for systems from on old Mac 512Kes thru the latest Apple Intel MacBooks.
Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
Version 3.6.4b8:
- fixed problems with fn plot1, format$, string objects
- added command: graphics arc x,y,r,a1,a2
Master Spell 5.1.2
Master Spell offers you a powerful language tool that administers spelling drills using audio recordings and the Macs Plaintalk Text-to-Speech and features 3,690 words for all levels more>>
Master Spell 5.1.2 offers you a powerful language tool that administers spelling drills using audio recordings and the Mac's Plaintalk Text-to-Speech and features 3,690 words for all levels, Dolch Lists, preview presentation, a built-in Test Editor with voice recorder and many network options for school use.
Word of the Day 3.0
Word of the Day - This widget will display the Word of the Day from dictionary.com more>> Word of the Day - This widget will display the Word of the Day from dictionary.com
This widget displays the Word of the Day from dictionary.com, including the words definition, pronunciation, and part of speech, along with a sentence using the word and a link to more information about the word
Please note that this is the original Word of the Day widget, not the copy.
System requirements:
- Internet Access.
Enhancements
- Completely redesigned
- Clearly separates the pronunciation and part of speech of the word from the word?s definition
Timer 2.5
Timer - Simple oven timer in Applescript Studio more>>
Timer uses speech to say timer has expired instead of an annoying alarm. Updates are only every 10 seconds, to keep overhead low.
VX-323 1.0b2
VX-323 is a software instrument that plays real-time synthesized speech in response to MIDI commands more>>
VX-323 provides electronic musicians with a powerful solution for incorporating synthesized speech into their performances. VX-323 replaces neither Celine Dion nor your death-metal croaker, but will open new avenues for exploring voices and the sound of speech.
Main features:
- Use any Apple or Cepstral Text to Speech (Macintalk) voice on your Mac
- Flexible pitch, voice, phrase, and expression setup
- Robust MIDI implementation
- Record CD-quality, dynamic stereo AIFF files