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ShadiSoft Speak - Make Your Computer Speak

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From: shadi
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 00:00
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Hi,
I am a student at Dalhousie University. I have made my own program and
am trying to boost its popularity. If you've never heard of it, please
download it and give it a try, I am sure you will find it helpful.

Speak: What does it do?

Speak combines the functionality of Microsoft Voice with Microsoft
Agent animated characters to read your documents, email messages, Web
pages, or Clipboard text. It ships with the Genie character, but you
can download other characters from the ShadiSoft.com, as you like.
Just keep the Microsoft Agent character on top of your desktop and
click on him whenever you want him to read, plus a new feature that
allows automatic reading when anything new is copied to the clipboard.
Speak also supports voice recognition (microphone required) and can
launch files with associations (such as Web pages, MP3 files, and
graphics files) as well as executables, and perform simple tasks such
as shutting down your computer. You can also use it to create
scheduled reminders that are read aloud when the time is right. This
download contains the Microsoft Agent ActiveX control. To activate the
optional speech recognition features, you have to download the
Microsoft Speech Recognition Engine.

There are many versions of it. Speak & Mail which supports mail, and
Speak Lite, which has no Voice Recognition capabilities.

I'm also willing to have a special Price for School or universities as
it could be used for those who have trouble reading or for the
visually impaired. It is also helpful for those long articles that
require a lot of concentration, it would make it much easier to just
listen to the character read it out.

I started putting it on CDs as well lately. Please let me know if you
have any questions and I appreciate your opinion. 

http://www.shadisoft.com

Thank you.

Shadi
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From: shadi@shadisoft.com
Subject: ShadiSoft Speak - Make Your Computer Speak
Date: 1999/03/31
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