Free speech therapy software for mac

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.

Requirements:
Apples Speech Recognition Manager 1.5 or later.

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.

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

TextEdit2Speech is a simple program - just type something in textedit and launch TextEdit2Speech. Then "Bruce" will read what you have typed. You also have the choice of saving it to a .AIFF format.

You can also launch the app now and it will read whats written in TextEdit.

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:

1. It is pretty much a "hands off" operation
2. It'll use your preferred voice, chosen in System preferences.
   
3. It'll use your preferred MP3 encoding rate, chosen in iTunes.
4. Make podcasts of blogs or other web pages.
5. Make your own "audio books" from downloadable free e-texts of books.
6. Create sound files saying every track in a playlist, so you can get a DJ on your iPod.

Chimoo Timer is a nice tool, a countdown/up timer featuring speech recognition and text-to-speech support.
Chimoo Timer major features:
- Speech Recognition for Start, Stop, and Reset.
- Speech support for counting seconds and alerts.
- "Tick" sound on seconds.
- Count up and count down modes.
- Low CPU usage, esp. when in background or hidden.
- Written in Cocoa - native for Mac OS X.
- Dock menu to start/stop/reset timer.
Main features:
- Speech Recognition (for Start, Stop, Reset, "current value", and "disable speech recognition").
- Speech support for counting seconds, speaking alerts.
- "Tick" sound on seconds.
- Count up and count down modes.
- Floating mini window mode takes up less space.
- Low CPU usage (esp. when in background or hidden).
- Written with Cocoa - native to Mac OS X.
- Dock menu to start/stop/reset timer.
- Multiplier view for counting elapsed frames.
- Detachable controller.
- Customizable settings for what to do upon timer expiration.
- Optional feature to warn before stopping timer - great for timing important things such as time spent working at home which you dont want to accidentally reset.
Enhancements:
- [new feature]New menu extra optionally displays timer in menu bar.
- [new feature]Dock icon can be hidden when menu extra is shown.
- [new feature] Greatly expanded text-to-speech options including count down expiration warning, ability to speak last ten seconds of a countdown, and customizable voice and speech rate settings.
- [new feature]Retooled speech recognition system with a few more options now displays standard floating speech palette.
- [new feature]New OS X style toolbar for timer control.
- [new feature]Option to display progress bar during count down.
- [new feature]Automatic repeat after delay option.
- [new feature]Ability to log current timer value and save log to a file.
- [other] Preferences reorganized.
- [other] Lots of other miscellaneous changes.
- [bugfix]Accuracy of timing is no longer affected by automatic internet updates of the computers date and time.
- [bugfix]Problems getting a count down time to stick have been resolved.

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