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Text to speech with a simple avatar. Can also be used to translate from English into another language, then into speech.

Demo of text-to-speech in multiple languages.

Online Speech Recognition in many languages. Text can be exported. I tried this with English and Japanese, and it quite accurately transcribed my speech, except proper names. Teachers could use this to help students improve pronunciation.

Accessibility extension for Google Chrome that enable text-to-speech and a picture dictionary in Google Docs. The voices available are for English, French, and Spanish.

A free text-to-speech plugin for Microsoft Word

Create animated videos using templates or your own ideas. Characters speak using text-to-speech, or you can record your voice.

Speech to text. Speak, and this site transcribes. Works in a wide variety of languages.

Demo of text-to-speech and audio effects in multiple languages.

Demo of text-to-speech and audio effects in multiple languages.

Upload presentation with notes, and final presentation has text-to-speech of notes accompanying slides. Limitations: English and German only. The English voice does not sound great.

This French website created for native French speakers is full of dictées - dictations. This site is divided into grade levels based on the French school system. (For a brief run-down of the grade levels in France visit the blog from Transparent Language entitled À l'École!: French and American Grade Levels Compared at http://blogs.transparent.com/french/a-lecole/) Since the ladictee.fr website is targeted toward elementary aged children, the language level works well for beginner and intermediate French L2 learners. Even though a dictée isn't what people would call a "communicative" activity, it does serve the purpose of helping students make connections between spoken language and written language, especially since French spelling is not phonemic. The site includes various dictées for each level, along with a PDF of the written text so student's can check their work. Doing dictées can help students improve their spelling, recognize spelling patterns, and learn to listen for cues in spoken speech that indicate whether the person is speaking in the plural or singular (often tricky in the French language). Note: When doing a dictée, students are focused on writing down what is said word for word, and NOT on comprehension. It would NOT be effective to give a student a dictée and then immediately ask them specific comprehension questions about what they just heard.

Record a message via phone, microphone, text-to-speech, or uploading an MP3. Embed resulting recording in your website. No registration required.

Upload PDFs that are converted into slides. Type text that is converted to speech in one of 18 languages. A slideshow with audio notes is produced.

Multilingual speech-to-text application. I tested English and Japanese. It works surprisingly well! Limitations: Only works in Chrome.

Find or create flashcards. Wide variety of language available. Text-to-speech available in 18 languages.

a free, open source toolkit for processing natural language text, based on machine learning. It includes common natural language processing functions such as tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity extraction, chunking, parsing, and coreference resolution. Limitations: can be difficult to use unless you have programming background

Type text and listen to it read aloud by computer voices in English, French, German, Italian, and Arabic.

Take and review notes online. You can include text and images. You can also have notes read to you (in English) using text-to-speech.

Use your voice to type in Google Docs. Many language are supported. First, you will need to change the language of the document by choosing File -> language.