The vOICe seeing-with-sound software translates images from a PC camera (webcam) into sounds that you hear via your stereo headphones, thus targetting sensory substitution applications for the totally blind, and even synthetic vision. Some blind people wear it daily with a wearable setup to "see" their environment as they go around, while other blind people (blind from birth) use it to experience for the very first time what vision is like.
Find some quiet time for yourself every day and LISTEN to and LEARN something new! Vocabulary and historical events for each day! Five very interesting sections: quote of the day, article of the day, today's birthday, this day in history and of course word of the day. Every day, a new content from www.TheFreeDictionary.com. Playback with a speech synthesizer. Simple and pleasant AUDITORY INTERFACE. Fully accessible to the blind.
SayPad, the freeware talking text editor can read you a good book or help you write one, using SAPI 5.1 Text To Speech (included). It can convert Text to MP3 for a whole book in one run, splitting off chapters into well named MP3 files. You can fit huge files into it like the whole Bible for instance, (In fact it has a filter you can turn on that skips over verse numbers to let you hear it like a story.)
A quick Tax Calculator for estimating 2006 taxes.
The taxes can be estimated in 5 simple steps.
Enter the expected 2006 Income, Number of dependents,
Itemized deduction (expected) and Total taxes planned to pay in 2006.
Calculator will dynamically calculate either refund or taxes due automatically.
RealTime Screen Reading talking mouse works with existing reader to provide GUI. Most screen readers treat Windows like a big list. Some run their hands over things, some run their eyes over things. It's the brain that puts it all together. How would you like to run your hands over the screen and get the big picture? Drive your mouse full speed across the screen, knowing in real time where you are and what you're flying over! You can picture it!
Hide windows,processes and executable-files with a preset hotkey. You can hide any visible window on your desktop,hide all the windows of specified processes or executable-files. You can select a window which to be shown onto the top after hidding. And you can choose to show or hide the tray-icon of this application.
Software that teaches you how to type with all ten fingers (for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland). 50 lessons. Visualisation of keyboard. Suitable for education at school.
Utility to send email from command prompt; send attached files, plain text or HTML (with embedded pictures). Supported - TO, CC (Carbon Copy), BCC (Blind Carbon Copy), alternate text for email programs that do not support HTML messages, message text encoding. FREE lifetime updates / upgrades for registered users. Works on Microsoft Windows (95 / 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / 2003 / XP / Longhorn). Ability to take parameters from a text file or files