assistive technology (5 products)

2nd Speech Center 1.50 (Shareware, $39.95)

Converts any text into spoken words or even MP3/WAVE audio files. 2nd Speech Center is an award-winning text-to-speech player that lets you listen to documents, e-mails or web pages instead of reading on screen. In addition to text, 2nd Speech Center also allows you to convert text to MP3 or WAVE files for listening later with your portable MP3 player. 2nd Speech Center supports dozens of male, female and robotic voices for over 11 languages.

Attendant Manager 2.0 (Shareware, $39.00)

Attendant Manager provides quality assistance with all major aspects of attendant care for disabled people. The program includes job descriptions, job applications, interview forms, hiring tutorials, needs assessment, scheduling, payroll with itemized earnings and deductions, training manuals, evaluations, and much more. Register and download the program key for unlimited use and installation on all your Windows platforms.

GroupsAloud 1.00 (Shareware, $19.95)

GroupsAloud, the worlds first talking Usenet News Reader, brings an unlimited amount of great information and conversation to you without the hassle of reading or even being tied to your computer. GroupsAloud is a simple to use USENET News Client. USENET is simply a system of newsgroups where millions of internet users are having ongoing conversations on almost any topic imaginable. With the topics divided up into thousands of different groups, you can find people trading information to help you learn more about your work and hobbies, being a better parent, getting the most from technology, or almost any of a topic you can imagine. The problem with USENET has always been too much information, too little time. Now, with the introduction of GroupsAloud, you can listen instead of read. Listen to topics of interest while you do other work at the computer, or mark those discussions of interest for conversion to MP3 files for later listening on a portable device away from the computer. Available with exciting premi

StocksAloud 1.50 (Shareware, $19.95)

StocksAloud is the great new talking program that helps you manage your investments and business interests by tracking companies for you. It let's 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. For a really quick and more private update, just press your left mouse button for one second on the system tray icon and a convenient pop up window shows an instant summary of your portfolio while StocksAloud runs in the background. It's up to you to decide how and when you want your information, it can even be emailed to you if that's your preference. Choose automatic audio updates and you won't even have to open the program window. Get StocksAloud now for the power to track your investments and business interests right on your PC. Now offered with optional AT

WeatherAloud 1.50 (Shareware, $19.95)

WeatherAloud is the talking software for your PC that brings you the weather as you've never heard it before. It's like having a personal weatherman at your service. These days the weather means a lot more than just what's outside your door, so WeatherAloud brings you forecasts and conditions from over 7500 locations worldwide. Wake up to your local forecast, listen to hourly temperatures from your favorite vacation spot, or hear conditions where your distant loved ones are. With frequent updates, current temperature in your system tray and complete control over when and what you hear, WeatherAloud helps you stay on top of the weather in your world. Available with exciting premium voices from AT