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The prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs on June 12, 2005 at Stanford University.

Great resource for "something more like an actual conversation - speech taking place in real time that is continually new, that conveys information that we are interested in...a listing of online news radio, talk, information programs, and music programs featuring music in the native language to practice your understanding of foreign languages. "

ANVILL (A National Virtual Language Lab) is a speech-based toolbox for language teachers

Reads text to speech on your web site. Free for individual blog accounts with 9 languages and 18 voices to chose from.

This is a listener wired for sounds. - Takayuki Ito / Haskins Laboratories This is a listener wired for sounds. - Takayuki Ito / Haskins Laboratories The movement of facial skin and muscles around the mouth plays an important role not only in the way the sounds of speech are made, but also in the way they are heard according to a study by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated research laboratory.

Will the Chinese people rise above cyber-vigilantism and use the Internet to build a just and fair society governed by accountable leaders? Or will the majority be be happy to wield their new-found powers of online speech in random fashion? That's really up to them. People like Liu Xiaoyuan and Yang Hengjun and a number of others have been raising such questions. It's hard to know whether people beyond the elite intelligentsia will pay attention to such concerns. This is why the suppression and censorship of Cultural Revolution history in China is so dangerous. If people could freely write and debate about what happened under Mao, history would have less chance of repeating itself.

A reaction essay is an essay that is written in response to something else. The initial topic that the writer is responding to could be anything from a speech that was heard to another essay to the latest breaking news event.

Contacted company to find out whether it would support foreign languages (doubtful but it is worth checking)

paste text in the box, and hear it read. Free for personal use.

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

Thx to Wes Fryer for link - "free text to speech converter for PDF files, word processing documents, webpages, and more - looks great for converting articles I want to read into mp3 files I can listen to on the go"

Free: Express Scribe Transcription Playback Software Digital Transcription Audio Player Software Express Scribe is free professional audio player software for PC, Mac or Linux designed to assist the transcription of audio recordings.