speech trial software / shareware for mac

Requirements:
System 7.6 or later, Apple Plain Talk Speech Recognition.

For people with strokes, or who have limited use of their jaws due to injury, and for anyone else who wants to use their Mac to give themselves a voice. An exciting way to speak to people with confidence and clarity. Choose from a preset list of words, or create your own list of words and sentences.
Main features:
- Simple to use
- Customizable
- Innovative use of screen real estate.

Take any document or web feed and convert it into an MP3/AAC track in iTunes using your Macs built-in text-to-speech capabilities. Automatically download podcasts and copy them into iTunes. From there its a quick sync to your iPod and away you go!
iSpeakIt allows you to listen to your documents on your iPod.
Main features:
- Load and edit any document. iSpeak It provides built-in support for PDF, Word, AppleWorks, RTF, HTML or text.
- Download and edit any web page or RSS news feed.
- Save documents as an AIFF file.
- Transfer a document to iTunes and convert it to an MP3, AAC, etc track in your library (MP3 versus AAC conversion is based on your import preference settings in iTunes; AAC conversion requires iTunes 4.0 or later). Unregistered versions of iSpeak It only transfer the first 1000 characters of a document.
- Split long documents into multiple tracks, just like audiobooks.
- Make AAC encoded documents bookmarkable so they remember where you left off, just like audiobooks.
- Automatically transfer a document to iTunes after it has been loaded.
- Automatically load web pages, news and/or weather on launch.
- Complete control over the song name, artist, album and genre settings.
- A Services menu item for loading selected text from any application.
- Download news headlines and weather forecasts.
- Define and apply replacement rules to correct for Apples text-to-speech weaknesses.
- Test the speech of any portion of a document to make sure it sounds correct (and subsequently define and test replacement rules for problem phrases).
- Converts a document to speech according to your Speech Preferences (as set via the System Preferences).
- Uses the file name, URL or download topic as the default song name to use within iTunes.
- Create and edit text documents.

iSpeak It 3.4 brings you a comprehensive file-to-audio converter that serves as a perfect companion to the iPod or iPhone. iSpeak It loads Word, PDF, Pages 2, RTF, AppleWorks, text and HTML documents. It downloads news, weather forecasts, driving directions, and arbitrary web pages as well as RSS feeds. iSpeak It then uses the Mac's text-to-speech engine and iTunes to convert the text into an MP3/AAC track.

Major Features:

1. Load and edit any document. iSpeak It provides built-in support for PDF, Word, Pages, AppleWorks, RTF, HTML or text.
2. Download any web page or RSS/Atom feed. iSpeak It remembers previous feed downloads to ensure you only get entries you haven't heard yet.
3. Save documents as an AIFF file.
4. Transfer a document to iTunes and convert it to an MP3, AAC, etc track in your library (MP3 versus AAC conversion is based on your import preference settings in iTunes; AAC conversion requires iTunes 4.0 or later).
5. Split long documents into multiple tracks, just like audiobooks.
6. Make documents bookmarkable so they remember where you left off, just like audiobooks.
7. Document text appears as lyrics on your iPod/iPhone so you can read along as you listen.
8. Automatically transfer a document to iTunes after it has been loaded. The document text is put into the track lyrics so you can read along as you listen.
9. Automatically load web pages and/or weather on launch.
10. Complete control over the song name, artist, album and genre settings.
11. A Services menu item for loading selected text from any application.
12. Download weather forecasts and driving directions.
13. Define and apply replacement rules to correct for Apple's text-to-speech weaknesses.
14. Test the speech of any portion of a document to make sure it sounds correct (and subsequently define and test replacement rules for problem phrases).
15. Converts a document to speech according to your Speech Preferences (as set via the System Preferences).
16. Uses the file name, URL or download topic as the default song name to use within iTunes.
17. Create and edit text documents.

Enhancements:

• iTunes 8.2 compatibility.

With Listen Later you can let the computer read your documents so that you can listen to them later.
Main features:
- Import PDF or text files or just enter text
- Select the computer voice, rate, and volume.
- Preview as the computer reads to you
- Record the speech to a file.
Version restrictions:
- Save is disabled.
- 20 day timeout.
- Nag windows.
Enhancements:
- Added save as text for when editing larger files.
- Fixed some minor bugs.

Requirements:
PowerPC, Mac OS 8.6 or later, Apples Speech Manager software must be installed for speech feature.

Enhancements:
Version 1.1 fixes the following:

• Program title added to Quit menu item.
• Program now uses Geneva as main display font (Mac OS X standard) rather than Charcoal (Mac OS 9 standard).
• OK and Continue buttons now respond to RETURN key press. Previously they had to be clicked.