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Last month, Erica Goldson graduated as valedictorian of Coxsackie-Athens High School. Instead of using her graduation speech to celebrate the triumph of her victory, the school, and the teachers that made it happen, she channeled her inner Ivan Illich and de-constructed the logic of a valedictorian and the whole educational system.

iSpeech has revolutionized text to speech with our free service. Now anyone can listen to any text content with minimal effort, no software installation and no technical expertise.

Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from AZW, CHM, DjVu, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, MOBI, ODT, PRC, PDF and RTF files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys.

I'm glad to introduce to you a brand-new application, Tagxedo, now in beta! Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurence within the body of text.

"Welcome to Tagxedo, tag cloud with styles\n\nTagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text."

type or paste text into box. Create mp3 and download. or use bookmarklet and paste web page into bookmarklet

These tours will demonstrate how easy it is to read websites aloud with BrowseAloud and how to personalise your settings to suit your individual needs or preferences.

A sticky idea is understood, it's remembered, and it changes something. Sticky ideas of all kinds-ranging from the "kidney thieves" urban legend to JFK's "Man on the Moon" speech-have six traits in common. If you make use of these traits in your communication, you'll make your ideas stickier. (You don't need all 6 to have a sticky idea, but it's fair to say the more, the better!)

RSS feed to audio producer so that your blog can be heard as well as read. Probably works with any rss feed.

A word tree is a visual search tool for unstructured text, such as a book, article, speech or poem. It lets you pick a word or phrase and shows you all the different contexts in which the word or phrase appears. The contexts are arranged in a tree-like branching structure to reveal recurrent themes and phrases.

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BrowseAloud reads web pages aloud for people who find it difficult to read online. Reading large amounts of text on screen can be difficult for those with literacy and visual impairments. Price but not sure how much