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Freecorder 3.0 is an easy-to-use audio recorder for your Windows based PC. Why is it special? * Records what you hear from your PC speakers. * Records from the microphone or line-in inputs on your PC. * Unique Sound Separation Technology eliminates background noises. * Easy-to-use Record, Stop and Pause functions. * See recordings happening with the cool Visualizer. * Saves recordings as MP3 or WAV files. * Supports all Windows versions, including Windows Vista. * Works with any sound card, even those that don't support recording. * No spyware, adware or viruses. * Easy to uninstall. * Includes a powerful Google-based search, radio player, and optional browser gadgets like weather, pop-up blocker, highlighter and more. * 100% FREE! Options may need to be adjusted to record both sides of Skype calls, and may not work with laptops or USB mics. Company offers older stand-alone recorder application which may work better with Skype.

"NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a free and open source screen reader for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Providing feedback via synthetic speech and Braille, it enables blind or vision impaired people to access computers running Windows for no more cost than a sighted person. Major features include support for over 20 languages and the ability to run entirely from a USB drive with no installation."

""Julius" is a high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) decoder software for speech-related researchers and developers. Based on word N-gram and context-dependent HMM, it can perform almost real-time decoding on most current PCs in 60k word dictation task. Major search techniques are fully incorporated such as tree lexicon, N-gram factoring, cross-word context dependency handling, enveloped beam search, Gaussian pruning, Gaussian selection, etc. Besides search efficiency, it is also modularized carefully to be independent from model structures, and various HMM types are supported such as shared-state triphones and tied-mixture models, with any number of mixtures, states, or phones. Standard formats are adopted to cope with other free modeling toolkit such as HTK, CMU-Cam SLM toolkit, etc. The main platform is Linux and other Unix workstations, and also works on Windows. Most recent version is developed on Linux and Windows (cygwin / mingw), and also has Microsoft SAPI version. Julius is distributed with open license together with source codes. Note: you should prepare a language model and an acoustic model to run a speech recognition with Julius. "

"User-friendly advice on MS Windows, Ubuntu Linux and smartphone Chinese setup, Pinyin and Zhuyin input methods (IME), Chinese fonts and Language Packs (MUI), plus Pinyin macros, a survey of third-party Chinese software, FAQs & more."

"Xaira is a text searching software originally developed at OUCS for use with the British National Corpus. This new version has been entirely re-written as a general purpose XML search engine, which will operate on any corpus of well-formed XML documents. It is however best used with TEI-conformant documents. Xaira has full Unicode support. This means you can use it to search and display text in any language, provided you have a suitable Unicode font installed on your system. At the heart of Xaira is the Xaira Object Model. This defines a range of objects and methods for representing and searching large amounts of linguistic data. The Xaira Server program implements this model. The Xaira Indexer program creates platform-independent indexes from collections of XML documents for use by the Server. Both these Xaira components can be deployed on any platform. Client programs can access a Xaira server using a close-coupled API such as that used by the Windows client (which is written in C++), or via XMLRPC or SOAP. We provide a fully-featured client for Windows, and a PHP code library which makes it easy to develop applications for the web which can talk to a Xaira server. All versions of Xaira are now distributed free of charge under the GNU General Public Licence."

Setting up Japanese input on Windows XP

Tips on activating Arabic language keyboards and right-to-left text direction in Windows.

In Windows, the Polytonic Greek support is a combination of a special Greek keyboard layout (Greek Polytonic) and a few fonts containing all the additional characters (diacritical and punctuation marks). This downloadable whitepaper outlines the steps you need to take to use Polytonic Greek from fonts to necessary keyboard layout.

This installer will install a custom designed keyboard for use in English with additional support for inputting characters for Hungarian, Indic Transcription, and Pinyin input. It is based on the US - International layout provided by Windows, which also allows for easy input of accented characters used in many European languages.

"Make 2D screen based cartoon stories to illustrate conversations and dialogues. Stories can include an unlimited number of frames and are view frame by frame. Each frame can include: Images: Drag and drop library items onto the frame, or import your own digital photos or images saved from the web. Text bubbles: Select from a range text bubbles and information boxes. Drag and drop onto the frame and start typing! Text can be in any language and any script. Voice recordings: Add new voice recordings using the simple built in recording panel. You can also add recordings already saved on your computer. Stories are saved on your computer as HTML page (webpages), and can easily viewed by others on any computer using a web browser such as Internet Explorer. Stories can also be printed. Completed stories can also be loaded back into the Cartoon Story Maker and edited or added to." Windows software

"For Microsoft Word I have made a taskbar for easy entry of romanized Sanskrit on Windows and Mac computers. Download from the right column on this page and install it on your PC or Mac."

"Simulate real relief efforts in Food Force: A major crisis has developed in the Indian Ocean and the United Nations is sending you on a mission to help feed the millions of people who are going without food! Designed by the United Nations, the premise of the game is to try and stop world hunger by strategic planning (though luck seems to be a bigger contributer to success than skill at times...)" Game is designed for native speakers (not language learners) but could be incorporated at upper levels into unit on food/hunger. Free downloadable software for Windows.

Japanese narration with English titles

Information on using non-English keyboards in Windows XP

Tutorial that shows how to install a free Hangul (Korean) typing tutor program on Windows - explains how to trick the installer into thinking it's a Korean-language system.

Welcome to the Logos context search facility LOGOS LIBRARY. The LOGOS LIBRARY is a powerful interface with a massive database (currently 707.737.941 words) containing multilingual novels, technical literature and translated texts. Hits are highlighted in context windows that can be expanded up or down. To go to the source web pages (novels, etc.) click on the title - to run a dictionary search click on the highlighted word or phrase.

On Tuesday, after a year of public testing, the Skype team (now owned by eBay) released Skype 4.0 for Windows, which the company calls "the biggest new release in Skype's history." (Gives summary of features in Skype, what's new and some evaluation.)

Every few minutes as you work in other apps (you choose how often)... Popling displays a question in a small window. Ignore it and it goes away... click it to see the full flash card. It's learning, with no motivation required!

Create your own learning and testing materials (CD-ROM and Web) with our authoring software 'Telos Language Partner' and make your eLearning content meet your learners' needs. Free non-commercial license. Windows only.