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Text-to-Speech in Languages other than English
OS X only offers US English text-to-speech voices, and they are not of a very high quality. Leopard’s “Alex” voice is a great improvement, but even that voice is jarring and mechanical to listen to for more than a few minutes and only offers American English. So what are your alternatives for text to speech?
iListen
The software referred to here has been superseded by a newer product. Please read the article about the new MacSpeech Dictate software instead. SALEM, NH, November 30, 2007 – MacSpeech, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of iListen 1.8, an update to the Macintosh industry’s leading speech recognition solution, now compatible with Mac OS X [...]
Move files without drag and drop
This article is about an application which is unfortunately no longer available. I have left the article here for reference purposes only. Move attempts to deal with the problems that blind users face with drag and drop. Move will move the selected items in the finder to a chosen directory. It will then open that [...]
MaxiMice
MaxiMice takes the clicks out of scrolling views and dragging windows. Move the mouse pointer near the edge of a view and it scrolls. Move it closer to the edge and the scrolling speeds up. Or just hold down a modifier key to move or scroll the window under the cursor.
CLIDrag 1.0.0
CLIDrag allows drag-and-drop operations to be initiated from the command line. It supports dragging of a number of different data types including files, text and images.
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