NextSpeak - Mandarin TTS is a software that uses Neospeech lily tts (text-to-speech) engine for learning mandarin (NeoSpeech Chinese voice is the best sapi 5 mandarin tts engine in the world.) NextSpeak - Mandarin TTS can read Chinese text from Word (using ms word add-in), Outlook, Adobe Reader, webpage ... with excellent mandarin pronunciation. You may also convert the Chinese text to voice in form of mp3 voice files for listening.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Chinese, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional
• Release: 2008-04-14
• Size: 200 Mb
• Cost: 49.95 $

Features of The World Adventurer Basic Chinese. 1. A competition game which aim at collecting words. 2. A 3D game created by using real time rendering engine. 3. Thousands of common words to learn so you can understand Chinese magazine or web sites. 4. Hundreds of Chinese four words idioms. 5. Clear pronunciations. 6. Amazing learning speed and fun you ever experience. 7. Low hardware required.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-11-13
• Size: 60 Mb
• Cost: Free

Learn Chinese and Speak Mandarin is a revolutionary and award winning new system for learning Chinese designed by language experts. The program contains personalized lessons that give special attention to everyday language and pronunciation. Users have access to two different speeds of playback for each item. The InstantSpeak method uses a unique audio flash card system that allows you to effortlessly recall what you have learned.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-01-09
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 45.99 $

Text-to-Speech Master is very powerful and interesting program that lets you listen to documents, e-mails or web pages instead of reading on screen or even convert them to audio files! It can read texts with different voices, speeds and pitches, read clipboard content, convert text to WAV or MP3 files and much more! Just imagine, how it's easier to listen to texts rather than read them.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-05-18
• Size: 9 Mb
• Cost: 29.95 $

The TTS(Text to Speech) software in Microsoft Mobile for Pocket PC. Read text fairly. 1. Choice English or Chinese TTS voice. 2. Read text to Wave file. 3. File function of New, Open, Save. 4. "Voice Speed" Setting. 5. Choice if to read punctuation. 6. Choice the style of reading number. 7, Read from anywhere in the text. 8, GB2312, BIG5 Character Encode. 9. Improve TTS volume low problem. 10. Compatible with WM 5.0 system.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-12-10
• Size: 5 Mb
• Cost: 35.00 $

Convenient graphical user interface for Japanese and Chinese dictionaries. It allows seamless browsing of kanji information and lookup kanji combinations, prints query results as lists or as flashcards. Version 2.1 now supports Chinese dictionary files, the Microsoft IME for entering Japanese or Chinese characters, and has many other small improvements.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-01-15
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: Free

LECTRA with Voice Synthesis! You can get some practice in reading. Many exercises (14) are proposed, so you can systematically work the basic abilities of the reading act: the perceptive skill, the knowledge of vocabulary, anticipation, selective reading... LECTRA builds automatically your exercises, using the text you enter or call from a text library. The treatment of the performances is possible. Lectra is a shareware.

• License: Shareware
• Language: German
• Release: 2001-07-05
• Size: 8 Mb
• Cost: 35.00 $

This is the handheld version of the popular Stackz flashcard organizer which is optimized for learning Japanese, Chinese and Korean. It brings the complete Stackz proficiency visualization system using colors to the PocketPC platform. Your handheld device becomes the ideal companion for short learning units on the road! Test results can be easily synchronized with the PC, where the content can be managed and extended.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-02-20
• Size: 368 Kb
• Cost: 19.00 $

Directly convert text to wav, text to mp3, text to wma, text to ogg, text to vox, text to au and text to aiff format on the fly without temporary files created. Convert text to speech at high speed and save your disk's life as well Show progress when speaking or converting text Support SAPI4 or SAPI5 compliant voices. Convert mp3 to Macromedia flash format, so you can convert text to swf and add mp3 stream speech to web site in realtime

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-11-11
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 149.95 $

The Stackz flashcard visualization concept helps to keep the overview over a large amount of words to be learned. The cards are graphically distributed according to the two characteristics 'mastery level' and 'date of the last mastery'. Stackz is optimized for learning languages as Japanese, Chinese, Korean or Thai, but it is not limited to that. Built in tools automate the process of generating new wordlists from scratch or web resources.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-01-14
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 49.00 $

This ActiveX (OCX) control was built on the Microsoft Text To Speech (from 5.1), you can set the voice of the text to speech, set any PCM formats, set the specific device to speak to ,set the volume, set the rate, save a text to an audio wave file, and more and more.... Includes visual basic and vb.net samples.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-02-12
• Size: 136 Kb
• Cost: 49.00 $

Hanzi Explorer is a powerful and intelligent four steps system for learning Chinese. Every Chinese character is derived from its etymology or memory skills to color components and animated in big size stroke by stroke. The voice of a FAMOUS CHINESE NATIONAL BROADCAST ANNOUNCER guarantees that you'll learn the correct pronunciation. Making your own color flashcards using Hanzi Explorer will allow of studying Hanzi offline.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-09-12
• Size: 12 Mb
• Cost: 49.00 $

TTSBuilder allows engineers to create their own Text To Speech Voice or Language using Festival Speech Synthesis Research. A complete step-by-step manual for such a creation is included in the retail version. The evaluation version has one such British Voice created using the mentioned step-by-step techniques. The TTSBuilder converts the heavy technical research oriented documentation into one simple practical guide. Live Demo www.ttsbuilder.com

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Korean, Other, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yiddish, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian
• Release: 2005-09-02
• Size: 8 Mb
• Cost: 999.00 $

MonkeyKing Chinese is for people who are serious about learning Chinese language. It's a simple, efficient, and comprehensive tool and designed for the beginners and senior learners to learn Chinese language and culture. Includes: 1, English-Chinese double language Dictionary. 2, Lessons and sense dialogues. 3, Text To Speech available in simplified Chinese. 4. Chinese input method. 5. Chinese lunar calendar and more useful tools.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional
• Release: 2006-06-29
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 19.90 $

Chinese Character Bible is a powerful and intelligent four steps system for learning Chinese. Every Chinese character is derived from its etymology or memory skills to color components and animated in big size stroke by stroke. These will dramatically enhance your memory efficiency. The words are spoken by a FAMOUS CHINESE NATIONAL BROADCAST ANNOUNCER.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Chinese
• Release: 2006-12-04
• Size: 12 Mb
• Cost: 49.00 $

Features : - Create your own word-lists very easily within our 400-characters selection or you can choose words from the Chinese dictionary itself. This selection represents 70% of the usual characters - A dictionary includes chinese traditional and simplified - A set of quizzes to assimilate your word-lists very fast. It has never been so easy to memorize chinese characters - Learn Chinese 2003 comes with all characters pronunciation

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-03-19
• Size: 16 Mb
• Cost: 32.95 $

NetWare Control Center is an advanced Logfile Analyzer and Realtime Event Monitor for Novell NetWare 4.x-6.x. Use it to manage and control all important logfiles, checkout the directory services health of your servers, monitor individual NetWare Events and assign alerting and logging options using Event Filter Rules. The Small Business Edition of NetWare Control Center is full functional (no expirations), download and register your copy for FREE!

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-12-06
• Size: 6 Mb
• Cost: 178.00 $

NetWare Control Center is an advanced Logfile Analyzer and Realtime Event Monitor for Novell NetWare 4.x-6.x. Use it to manage and control all important logfiles, checkout the directory services health of your servers, monitor individual NetWare Events and assign alerting and logging options using Event Filter Rules. The Small Business Edition of NetWare Control Center is full functional (no expirations), download and register your copy for FREE!

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-12-06
• Size: 6 Mb
• Cost: 114.00 $

( softboy.net )It Lets you hear magic sound when you press keys or click mouse. The program allows you to hear the sound or the words which you want to hear after your typing or clicking.If the Microsoft Speech API and TTS Engine have been install on your computer, The program can vocalise the text you are typing at the completion of each character or each word or each sentence.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-12-13
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: 29.95 $

TxReader converts documents into spoken words and MP3. TxReader is much more than just a program that reads any document presented to it. It is actually three programs in one, first is the quality easy to use text to speech program that give great reading result making use of the lasted natural sounding voice from all the top sellers. Secondly, TxReader is a spelling assistant for the entire family.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-04-04
• Size: 15 Mb
• Cost: 99.95 $