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- Speech Synthesizer (exe)
- Speech Synthesizer is a great text-to-speech synthesizer for children to learn English speaking and vocabulary. Speech Synthesizer is a powerful text-to-voice converting application that is extremely useful for converting all types of text to speech, learning English pronunciation, and vocabulary building. The TTS software runs on all Windows systems and...
- Tags: Speech, Vocabulary, Speech Synthesizer, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Microsoft Office, Office Suites
- Software downloads 2005-05-26
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- Hi Def Voice: Cool Sounding, But Do You Care?
- Who doesn't hate a bad phone connection, but just how bad does a connection have to be before you're willing to pay for a really good one? That's the question telephony vendors are wondering, as they deliver hi-def...
- Tags: Phone, Voice, Codec, Voice Channel, Telecom & Utilities, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Student Technology Day: session videos now online
- Last month I attended the Microsoft Student Technology Day 2008 full coverage here in London, with Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, Andy McLoughlin, CEO of Huddle.net and many others. It was really quite an eye-opening day to some of the work at Microsoft, and from the many emails I got...
- Tags: Multi-touch, Steve Ballmer, Video, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Amazon CTO: Cloud infrastructure keeps companies focused on innovation
- On the night of the historic U.S. presidential election, news outlets across the country streamed live video of the news coverage on their Web sites. Obviously, the Web traffic that night, compared to others, was exponentially greater. But it's not as if news organizations went out and spent boatloads of...
- Tags: Innovation, Amazon.com Inc., Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Advantages of the Storm over the iPhone (updated)
- (Update: I took the number out of the headline, because it keeps changing.) I got to play with a Blackberry Storm earlier this week and a couple of features immediately jumped out at me that beat the iPhone hands down: Copy and Paste...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Battery, Apple Inc., Blackberry Storm, Keyboards, Engineering, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Opening arguments in Drew case
- The opening argument in the Lori Drew case may hint at just how difficult it will be to keep the case focused on the actual charges of computer fraud and misuse, rather than Drew's liability for the suicide of Megan Meier. The New York Times reports federal...
- Tags: Mr., Ms., Productivity, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- News to know: Intel, Adobe; Kindle economics; OLPC
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: New update of Microsoft codename tracker available now Larry Dignan: Intel launches Core i7; Who's buying? Paul Murphy: How Intel's Nehalem...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Industry, SOA, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Speak into your iPhone for fast Google search results
- Google continues its efforts to optimize the mobile experience on the iPhone with their new speech recognition search application that will lets iPhone users ask questions verbally and receive back Google search results. This new search functionality will also take advantage of the iPhone location-based technology and sometimes give you...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Google Search, Speech Recognition, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Voice Terminal Service brings the internet to the visually impaired through phones
- I am blessed to have good eyesight and finger dexterity so interacting with the small screens and keyboards that are a part of my daily mobile life is rather easy for me. However, there are people who are visually impaired, have limited internet access, or need a complete hands-free solution...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Voice, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Terminal Services, Marketing, Matthew Miller, AudioPoint, Audiopoint Service, E-mail, Online Communications
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Challenging Silicon Valley to put poverty into a museum . . .
- I'm not washing my right hand for a while because I used it to shake the hand of Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and a person that I've held in the highest regard for many years. Mr Yunus gave the keynote speech at the Tech Museum's Tech...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Poverty, Bangladesh, Mr., Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, Grameen Loan, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Silicon Valley's top awards
- Silicon Valley's 2008 Tech Awards: Technology Benefiting Humanity will be presented at a gala dinner this evening. The keynote speech will be delivered by Mohammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner. I'm looking forward to meeting Mr Yunus as I've been an admirer of his...
- Tags: Humanity, Applied Materials Inc., Benefits, Human Resources, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Gore at Web 2.0: Nice ideas among the gobbledegook
- Web 2.0 - like a puppy(?!) - needs a purpose. Saving the Earth is probably a pretty good one. But based on reports Al Gore's speech was long on spiritual meanderings and short on Web2 specifics. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Worst. Bug. Ever.
- Worst. Bug. Ever.sounds like....Way back when... Bill was demo'ing a voice interface to windows when someone in the audience shouted out Format C colon....Confirmed.I've just confirmed this bug on my test model of the G1 (pressed [enter] R-E-B-O-O-T [enter] and it rebooted on the spot).Android is a java framework it...
- Tags: Speech recognition, Programming languages, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Java, java framework
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureYour definition of a video game console ...... must be any device on which games can be played. Cell phiones are thus the most popular consoles.For the term to mean anything, this defintion from Microsoft search is better:Definition of: video game console A specialized...
- Tags: Games, Game players, Microsoft Windows, console, game, game console, video game
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Obama-mania gives cybercriminal an opening
- Obama-mania gives cybercriminal an openingJust dessertsWe've pulled all our savings out of the stock market in anticipation of the Messiah's tax hikes. This guy is a gifted speaker and a disaster waiting to happen. People lapping up every word are zombies who need to be shocked into reality;...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Investment, Messiah, tax, dessert, stock market
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Obama-mania gives cybercriminals an opening
- Here's another implication of the Connected President: malware authors see a huge opportunity to infect computers. Ben Worthen blogs at the Wall Street Journal that millions of emails went out Wednesday inviting people to click on a link to watch an "amazing" Obama speech. The email...
- Tags: Malware, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Steve Ballmer live from Australia
- Programming note: In about an hour Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will deliver his first speech since the Professional Developer's Conference to a select audience in Sydney. Our sister site, ZDNet Australia is broadcasting the stream live at 11:30 p.m. EST, 8:30 p.m. PST--or 3:30 p.m., Nov. 6...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Obama-related spammed trojan propagating worldwide
- Several security companies including F-Secure, Sunbelt, and my employer Cloudmark disclosure are reporting a large volume of Obama-related spam that links to malware. This is just the latest twist on the long-running theme of social engineering end users into installing web-based malware. The lures...
- Tags: Cloudmark, President, Trojan Horse, Cyberthreats, Spam, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- The importance of communication
- I'm neck deep in alligators at the moment, wrapping up a play with the high school's drama club. I can't say I really had time to volunteer for this particular job and, not surprisingly, the drama kids are consumed, currently, by their own internal drama, balanced against mid-terms. ...
- Tags: Election, Productivity, Leadership, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Is George Ou right?
- Former ZDNet blogger, George Ou, is always good for a discussion of educational technology. As he wrote on my post yesterday ("Enough already with the Luddite schools"), I'm no luddite and I remember carrying an electric typewriter to a High School English class for a...
- Tags: Education, Software, Social Media, Teacher, Computer, George Ou, Classmate PC, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
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