Speak Aloud 

Read text aloud with support for SAPI4 or SAPI5 compliant voices. Convert text to wav, mp3, wma, ogg, vox, au and aiff format on the fly, no temporary files needed, save your disk. Support batch conversion. Support reading hightlight
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MASH 

Bring your Desktop to Life with Microsoft Agent Animated Talking Characters in 11 Languages! Easily record and playback entertaining character presentations by simply dragging characters around the screen and directing what they say and do.
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PpSort+ 

SORT and many more functions: BUTTONS include: [Accessories] [Break] Case] [Find/Replace] [Hex] [Html] [Insert] [Leading] [Remove] [Sort] [Speak ClipBoard] [Strip] [Trailing]
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Total Recorder Standard Edition 

Total Recorder records streaming audio from Real Player or Windows Media Player, mic input, line-in input, and DVDs or CD's or and other sound card source.
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SmartButler 

Reads aloud ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, Paltalk, Windows Messenger, Trillian Pro and Miranda messages. Integrates with Microsoft Outlook. Supports voice commands (speech recognition). Can be used from external applications and scripts. And much more...
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SpeechExpert 

SpeechExpert is the software which can read and manage the articles for you. Besides reading the articles in the web pages, emails, documents and others, it can also help you with managing the articles reading and read for you.
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