Audio Caller ID will announce a caller's name over your computer speakers, email you when specified calls are received, and even block calls you choose. You can optionally assign pre-recorded sounds to be played for specified callers. Audio Caller ID can publish your call log to your own web site. Easily return any call by just double clicking on any call in the log, and your modem will dial the number for you.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-10-31
• Size: 265 Kb
• Cost: 24.95 $

Talking Reminder will keep track of your important events and remind you about them using speech, sound, alert window, email, or file execution. Talking reminder is fun, easy to use and completely customizable to fit your needs Talking Reminder will not let you down. It will try to alert you using it’s standard alert window several times and if you are not around to acknowledge an event-it can send you an email to make sure you get the message.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-12-10
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 29.95 $

Converts any text into spoken words. Reads Text, Email, Web Pages, and Documents using your choice of voices. Unique Text to MP3 or WMA conversion saves your daily reading to audio files for download to your portable player. Listen to email, online news, or important documents while you exercise, work or commute. Available with exciting premium voices from ATT Natural Voices, Cepstral, NeoSpeech, Acapela, and Nuance/ScanSoft RealSpeak.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Arabic, Chinese, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Danish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Other, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
• Release: 2008-04-24
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: 29.95 $

Converts any text into spoken words. Reads Text, Email, Web Pages, and documents using your choice of voices. Unique Text to MP3 conversion can save your daily reading to MP3 files to download to your portable player. Listen to email, online news, or important documents while you exercise, work or commute. Available with exciting premium voices from AT&T, Cepstral and NeoSpeech to add amazing personality to your PC.

• License:
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-05-05
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 29.95 $

TextAloud converts any text into spoken words. Instead of the valuable time you spend reading on your computer, imagine being free to relax, get up and stretch, or work on other things while the information you need is read to you in a pleasant,natural sounding human voice. Better still, leave your computer behind

• License:
• Language: English, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Italian
• Release: 2005-05-05
• Size: 0 B
• Cost: 29.95 $

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 to sound boring in front of the board and embarrass yourself). Hate reading e-books? Uses High Quality Text To Speech Engines from TTS Builder.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Arabic, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Other, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yiddish
• Release: 2005-09-11
• Size: 21 Mb
• Cost: 16.00 $

Call Alert! enables your PC to recognize the caller without the need to answer by announcing Caller ID information with voice, alerting you immediately when a new call arrives. With Call Alert!, you can block telemarketers (or any other unwelcome callers) easily: simply select whole or any part of a telephone number, and add it to the "black list". Call Alert! will recognize such callers, and disconnect them automatically after just one ring.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-05-07
• Size: 540 Kb
• Cost: Free

DeskBot is a free, multi-featured Clipboard Reader, Text Reader, Time Announcer, and Internet Explorer Add-In for Microsoft Windows which Microsoft Agent Animated, Talking Characters. From the developer of MASH - The Microsoft Agent Scripting Helper.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-05-12
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: Free

Bring your Desktop to Life with Microsoft Agent Animated Talking Characters in 11 Languages! Record and playback entertaining presentations by simply dragging characters around the screen, directing what they say and do. Behind the scenes, MASH does the hard work and can generate your presentations into several scripting languages for use in Websites, Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations, Emails, Visual Basic, Windows Scripting Host, and more.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-01-01
• Size: 7 Mb
• Cost: 25.00 $

Talking Translator Pro is an easy to use 4 in 1 language utility which can translate text between 8 languages, 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 text-to-speech feature. You can easily edit and saves your translations and meanings in multiple formats. Also, text-to-speech engines in 12 languages are provided free.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-10-04
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 20.00 $

Text-to-Speech Master is very powerful and interesting program that lets you listen to documents, e-mails or web pages instead of reading on screen or even convert them to audio files! It can read texts with different voices, speeds and pitches, read clipboard content, convert text to WAV or MP3 files and much more! Just imagine, how it's easier to listen to texts rather than read them.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-05-18
• Size: 9 Mb
• Cost: 29.95 $

Start recognizing voice commands in any spoken language with Research-Lab's Isolated Words Language-Independent Speech Recognition Engine. From writing a simple voice commands recognition program to a VoiceXML PC-To-PC Interactive Voice Response, English Language is no more a programmers only limit . Need also arises in conditions when one requires to add a user interface with hands-free control

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, Arabic, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Other, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yiddish
• Release: 2005-09-25
• Size: 6 Mb
• Cost: Free

StocksAloud is the great new talking program that helps you manage your investments and business interests by tracking companies for 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.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-12-07
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 19.95 $

Make animated, speaking photos in minutes with CrazyTalk. Images are brought to life by displaying emotions and lip-synching with your own voice, imported audio or text messages. You can even apply different facial expressions to single words, sentences or the entire message to add more realism. CrazyTalk Web Edition includes additional features for creating interactive content for your Web site. ActiveX, WMV, RM.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2003-12-01
• Size: 26 Mb
• Cost: 79.95 $

CrazyTalk morphs your photos into talking 3D animated characters for video, web, mobile or messaging projects. Just a single photograph, recorded or imported audio, and CrazyTalk's powerful facial morphing animation technology is all you need to begin creating speaking actors, guides, and digital hosts adding perfect personalities to any multimedia experience. CrazyTalk is the easiest way to create live talking characters from digital photos.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-06-27
• Size: 30 Mb
• Cost: 149.95 $

Create animated, speaking photos in minutes with CrazyTalk. Now, without the use of any additional video hardware or software, CrazyTalk enables users to easily and quickly generate professional-grade output. Images are brought to life by displaying emotions and lip-synching with recordings of your own voice, imported audio files or text messages. Send your animated images as talking electronic greeting cards and talking messengers

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2003-12-01
• Size: 17 Mb
• Cost: 49.95 $

Transform photos and images into talking animated characters and bring them to life with real-time puppeteering; turning any PC into a face animation movie studio. Choose any image to enliven from animals, cartoons, drawings or photographs. CrazyTalk 5 generates talking movies from photos with fun, easy tools and powerful performance.

• License: Shareware
• Language: German
• Release: 2008-03-24
• Size: 120 Mb
• Cost: 149.95 $

StocksAloud is the great new talking program that helps you manage your investments and business interests by tracking companies for 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.

• License:
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-05-05
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 19.95 $

Gizmoz Talking Headz (Beta) is an extremely humoristic innovative Plug-in for all the leading Instant Messengers. Now for the first time you can communicate by fun amusing believable 3D personal Talking Headz, which are animated by emotions, text to speech or by your very own voice.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-08-23
• Size: 9 Mb
• Cost: Free

Ascendis Caller ID works with your telephone company's caller id service to track and announce phone calls and block annoying telemarketers! Each caller can be announced with a variety of pop-up window options, pre-recorded sounds, and/or text-to-speech, and can trigger email, a hang up, or the program of your choice. Advanced scripts provide even more control. Can popup caller in Outlook or ACT!

• License: Commercial
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-01-14
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 34.95 $