Microsoft Reader
. Once downloaded, each eBook can be read on a user's desktop or laptop PC, Pocket PC or Tablet PC. Each week, new content will be made available to expand
each user's personal library of eBooks.
Microsoft Text-to-Speech Package
Microsoft Reader Text-to-Speech Package is localized in three languages. All versions maintain the same system requirements, but the download size varies
slightly.
MAGic Screen Magnification Software Downloads
MAGic® combines great magnification features with true low vision screen reading when purchased with the speech option. It gives you the ability to choose
the information you want read from the screen as you navigate your applications. MAGic is easy to use with its talking large print installation, color-coded
user interface, and hot keys that avoid conflicts with Windows® and popular software applications.
OpenBook Scanning & Reading Software
OpenBook™ allows you to convert printed documents or graphic based text into an electronic text format using accurate optical character recognition and
quality speech. OpenBook's many powerful low vision tools allow you to customize how the document appears on your screen, while other features provide
portability.
TypeAbility
Demo
For both children and adults who need to learn to type, TypeAbility is the easiest, most enjoyable and most affordable of all typing programs. TypeAbility
requires the JAWS screen reader, either the full JAWS version, or the JAWS demo. TypeAbility is also compatible with MAGic 10, Freedom Scientific's screen
magnifaction program for the partially sighted.
ZoomText 9.1 Trial
20 levels of magnification from 105% to 200%, full screen or just the active application
Change magnification levels using the mouse, Intelligent tracking of all program activity keeps important information in view, Unique zooming modes allow you to magnify the
Supports True Color and High Color display modes and all screen resolutions
Free Demo of JAWS 10
Starting with JAWS 10, if you want to try a free demonstration of JAWS, select the FTP or the HTTP link from the Download JAWS 10 section and run JAWS in 40-minute demo mode.
Hal - Screen reader with Speech and Braille support
Developed for blind computer users, Hal is a software screen reader that works by reading the screen interactively and communicating through a speech synthesiser
or a refreshable Braille display.
Serotek Free 30-Day Trial Downloads
today released version 3.0 of its award-winning System Access software. With this release, Serotek now offers the first full-featured screen access product with support for 64-bit operating systems, voice over IP, speech and refreshable Braille output, and the most compelling support for iTunes 8 on the market. This is a breakthrough for blind and visually impaired consumers and IT professionals alike.
New computers, from the smallest Netbook to the most powerful server, that are running OEM versions of 64 Bit Windows are instantly accessible with System Access 3.0. Additionally, first-letter navigation is now available for email, community forums, and all the diverse entertainment options available within the System Access Mobile Network.
While System Access users have long had remote access capabilities for support, training or fun, the new voice over IP feature of System Access 3.0 allows clear and crisp voice chat among connected users, virtually eliminating toll-free number costs and the need for third-party VOIP software such as Skype.
Version 3.0 of the System Access software also offers full access to speech and refreshable Braille output for applications both at home and away. With a light, portable and fully plug-and-play Alva BC640 display, accessibility is available anywhere. Connected to any computer, it offers speech and Braille output without installation, and leaves no drivers or traces of usage on the host computer.
NCH Swift Sound Software Home Page
Verbose is a text to speech program which will read aloud any text or save it as mp3.
After you have installed this text reading software you can assign a system wide hot key. Then whenever you want Verbose to read the text on your screen just push that key and the software will read it aloud.
Request a Kurzweil 3000 for Windows Trial CD
Request or download Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh Trial Product"
Kurzweil Educational Systems’ research-aligned technologies provide complete reading, writing, and study solutions to help all students overcome learning
challenges and succeed academically.
AudiBill The free currency recognition program from the makers of Kurzweil 1000
Audibill is a simple Windows program designed to recognize the denominations of paper currency from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Europe. It will run under any version of Microsoft Windows, and should support any flatbed scanner that has a compliant Twain or WIA interface.
Emacspeak
Emacspeak is a speech interface that allows visually impaired users to interact independently and efficiently with the computer.
allows Emacspeak to produce rich aural presentations of electronic information. By seamlessly blending all aspects of the Internet such as Web-surfing and messaging, Emacspeak speech-enables local and remote information via a consistent and well-integrated user interface. Available free of cost on the Internet, Emacspeak has dramatically changed how the author and hundreds of blind and visually impaired users around the world interact with the personal computer and the Internet. A rich suite of task-oriented tools
Browsealoud
Browsealoud is a computer program that reads out all website content
As you move the cursor over words, they are spoken aloud
FREE Guide 30-day Trial CD
GUIDE is an all-in-one computer package for people who are blind or partially sighted. It has been specifically designed to be easy to use and easy to learn. So it doesn't matter if you've never used a computer before, GUIDE will help you to achieve the results you want.
Guide gives you many easy to use features in one great package, including magnification, speech, emails, word processing, reading machine, web browser and much more!
Thunder is now TOTALLY FREE to all organisations and all individuals.
Thunder is award-winning free screenreader talking software for blind and visually impaired people. Thunder is a reading aid and restores the ability to write, keep up to date with information, learning and work, while remaining within the mainstream of Society.
1. Thunder is very easy to use. .
2. Thunder is free of charge to EVERYONE and any organisation.
3. Thunder is a quick and easy download on a modern computer.
4. Thunder is a very smart screenreader.
Get WebbIE Now
WebbIE, the free web browser for blind people with little or no sight.
Download WebbIE 3.7.3 now - just click, download and run to get the latest WebbIE browser, Accessible RSS news reader, Podcatcher and more. All our programs in one simple download.
WebAnywhere: A Screen Reader On the Go
WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader for the web. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web from any computer they happen to have access to that has a sound card. No $1000 software program required!
WebAnywhere's will run on any machine, even heavily locked-down public terminals, regardless of what operating system it is running and regardless of what browsers are installed.
Orca is a free, open source scriptable screen reader
Orca is a free, open source scriptable screen reader. Using various combinations of speech, braille, and magnification, Orca helps provide access to applications and toolkits that support the AT-SPI (e.g., the GNOME desktop). The development of Orca has been led by the Accessibility Program Office of Sun Microsystems, Inc. with contributions from many community members.
GW Micro - Window-Eyes - 7.01 Demo
The Window-Eyes demo is fully functional except for one item (which is excluded in the full version of Window-Eyes): the demo will time out after 30 minutes.
You will need to reboot for an additional 30 minutes. You may do this an unlimited number of times. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of Window-Eyes
that lasts longer than 30 minutes, refer to the
Window-Eyes Lease To Own
program, or the
Window-Eyes 60 Day Evaluation
ReadPlease - Downloads
Features:
Microsoft voices: Mike, Mary, Sam, Customize font and background colour, Reads text via Windows clipboard from any program (copy/paste) and Control reading from system tray.
Plus version only features:
Low vision large controls option, Fast forward and backward, Highlights text while reading, Dock Mode - will dock at the top of the screen, Add your own words and pronunciations, Play can start anywhere in a document, Adjustable pause between paragraphs, Hot-key controls for all functions, AT&T Natural Voices compatible and More languages (Lernout & Hauspie Voices), (.
Nextup.com
Our mission at NextUp Technologies is to bring new and interesting technologies and applications to the Internet community. Talking software is our focus and we are developing a series of programs for the PC and portable platforms.
Free Downloads of TextAloud and other Text To Speech/Voice Synthesis/Text To MP3/Ipod Software
Free NaturalReader
NaturalReader is a Text to Speech software with natural sounding voices. This easy to use software can convert any written text such as MS Word, Webpage, PDF files, and Emails into spoken words. NaturalReader can also convert any written text into audio files such as MP3 or WAV for your CD player or iPod.
Nuance TALKS
Nuance TALKS™ converts the display text of a cellular handset into highly intelligible speech, making the device completely accessible for blind and visually impaired people. Nuance TALKS runs on Symbian-powered mobile phones to speech-enable contact names, callerID, text messages, help files and other screen content.
the Home of NVDA
NVDA is a free and open source screen reader for the Microsoft Windows Operating System. This software can enable blind or vision impaired people to access computers running Windows, for no more cost than a sighted person.
NVDA allows the user to find out what is happening on the screen, by querying the Operating system and using a speech synthesizer to output the information.
Check out the Download section if you would like to get a copy and try it out.
Skype Recorder free download
Skype Recorder is a surprisingly easy-to-use tool for recording Skype audio conversations. Skype Recorder can record Skype
calls automatically.
The software has a number of additional handy features such as an automatic record encoding into MP3/WMA/OGG/WAV format, all Skype versions support, conversations in either single or dual audio track recording, hidden mode work, a built-in audio player, a built-in FTP-client and an easy-going interface.
Visit the home page of: Skype Recorder!
Free MX Skype Recorder
MX Skype Recorder
MX Skype Recorder is a new tool that works in conjunction with Skype and other VOIP applications, to record your voice conversations.
It has the following advantages:
Audacity Free Sound Editor and Recording Software
The latest release of Audacity is 1.3.4 (beta). Because it is a work in progress and does not yet come with complete documentation or translations into foreign languages, it is recommended for more advanced users. See New Features in 1.3 for more information about the 1.3.x beta series.
For all users, Audacity 1.2.6 is a stable release, complete and fully documented. You can have both Audacity 1.2.6 and 1.3.3 installed simultaneously.
Download Audacity 1.2.6
Audacity 1.3.3 Guide A guide for Jaws users
GoldWave - Audio Editing, Recording
GoldWave is a top rated, professional digital audio editor. It contains so many great features, you will be amazed by all the things it can do
Audio Recording | The JAWS Script Repository
Tag Archives: Audio Recording
JAWS Scripts Version 1.57 for Goldwave (a professional digital audio editor), Version 5 or later
Download Software to Record Streaming Audio
SoundTap lets you record just about any audio that plays through your Windows computer. Simply install this software, turn it on and then all sound played on or through the PC will be recorded as wav or mp3 files. All audio is 'tapped' by a virtual driver directly within the kernel so the process is perfect digital quality.
Sound Forge 9
Professional digital audio production suite includes everything you need to quickly get from raw audio to finished master. Use this suite to create and edit stereo and multichannel audio files with speed and precision.
RealPlayer Plus
Transfer Web video to your iPod, burn them to DVD, get advanced audio/video controls and more!
Try it free.
Windows Media Player 11
Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP offers great new ways to store and enjoy all your digital media. It's easier than ever to access all of your music, videos, pictures, and recorded TV on your computer. Play it, view it, organize it, or sync it to a portable device for enjoying on the go, or share with devices around your home—all from one place.
Download Winamp Media Player 5.5
Winamp Media Player 5.5, The Free MP3 Player!
HotKey Search
Have you ever wondered how many hotkeys are on your system? Well here is a little tool that will show you that!
Free Downloads Center
Over 30000 software titles available for free download!
Your Freeware and Shareware Download Destination!
This Web site is provided to you free of charge, "as is," by BlueChillies.com (the Site). BlueChillies.com lists Windows, Macintosh, BeOS, DOS, Windows CE, Palm OS, Linux and Linux/UNIX software which are organized to more than 200 categories including Games, Utilities, Drivers, MP3 and Audio, Multimedia, Internet, Business, HTML and more!
Talking Event Scheduler
Talking Event Scheduler for Blind and Disabled Computer Users.
Talking Event Scheduler is a simple yet very effective speech enabled scheduler. It allows you to schedule limitless events (or alarms) with associated message text and is an invaluable tool for those who have trouble getting organized and those who do not like to forget their appointments, meetings, and so on.
Talking Secretary
Create reminders based on any dates, days or events, and never forget again. This will say the day and time out loud for you, read messages to you, play MP3 files, play video reminders, and display customized messages based on days of the week, weekends, specific dates, or even monthly dates. Never forget birthdays, holidays, or meetings again, and you can even use this as an alarm clock. You can create reminders or alarms to occur on specific days of each week or weekend, on a specific date or time you choose, or even any specific day of the month or month end. This alarm and reminder software will help you always remember your daily tasks, meetings, or special occasions. The voice activation will announce the day and time for you, and will read customized reminder messages to you. You can choose reminders that will play MP3 files or videos, open documents, display messages and more. (Runs on all Windows systems).
Download Skype For FREE!
Set your conversations free with Skype. Skype is software that lets you use your computer and internet connection to communicate with anyone, anywhere in
the world.
Free calls and video calls
When you and the person you're calling are both on Skype, the calls are free. Oh, and video calls are free too.
If you are a JAWS user, go here to download Skype scriptts!
Vonage's Click-2-Call®
With Vonage's Click-2-Call® , you can call any number, in any location, on any device without even dialing. Best of all, Click-2-Call® is included at no
extra charge and calls made using this feature enjoy the same great rates as your other Vonage calls.
Click-2-Call® works with Microsoft Outlook and easily works with applications on your desktop. Just
download
Click-2-Call® and you are ready to go at no extra charge.
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Firefox web browser
The Web is all about innovation, and Firefox 3 sets the pace with dozens of new features, including the smart location bar, one-click bookmarking and blindingly fast performance.
WebVisum
WebVisum is a unique and free Firefox add on which greatly enhances web accessibility and empowers the blind and visually impaired community by putting the control in your hands! Its aim is to allow you to better enjoy surfing the net and be significantly less dependent upon outside help.
Just a few exciting features that we already offer:
* Community driven tagging and page enhancements.
* Automated and instant CAPTCHA image solving, sign up to web sites and make posts and comments without asking for help!
* Built in helper functions for easier page navigation and less confusion.
* Numerous under the hood page tweaks designed to help screen reader users.
* Visually Impaired users benefit from features such as high contrast page viewing, link and focus highlighting, and more.
CathyAnne’s Review
The captcha feature is fantastic!
When you locate a page with a captcha, Web visum informs you that it has been submitted and then a few moments later informs you that it has resolved the captcha and placed it in your clipboard. Paste the text into the edit field and you are off!
This is an amazing tool that may have blind people turning to Firefox in droves.
The program also has a menu where you can disable features. Including images, flash content and background sounds. I like disabling the background sounds because those are sometimes louder than my screen reader.
The ability to quickly enable and disable flash is also nice. No need to use the screen reader just use the web visum menu.
I haven't tried the OCR feature because I haven't run into any graphics that meet the requirements yet. So far, I'm really impressed.
Thunderbird
Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 email application is more powerful than ever. It’s now even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail.
“If you think there's nothing more that can be added to an email client -- except for the fabled seek-out-and-destroy-spam option -- prepare to be pleasantly surprised. The new Thunderbird comes with numerous new features.”
Windows Live Messenger
Get it free
Get this and more Windows Live services all at once
Instantly connect to the people who matter the most—via text, voice, or video. Even if they’re offline, you can leave a message or send a note.
Share your personal files, photos, and videos of any size. Just drag and drop into a Shared Folder.
Accessible Podcatcher, the podcast aggregator for blind and visually-impaired people
Accessible Podcatcher (formerly Accessible Podcaster) is a simple way for blind and screen reader users to use podcasts. Podcasting is a way to distribute audio files on the web. Accessible Podcatcher lets you access these podcasts. You can listen to them, forward and rewind, save particular items to disk, and export and import lists of podcasts to send to other people. You also get Accessible Podcast Directory, a way for you to find new podcasts to add to your collection.
Juice, the cross-platform podcast receiver
So what is it?
Want to listen to internet audio programs but can't when they are scheduled? This program lets you create your own custom online audio anytime, anywhere. Really.
If you want to listen to podcasts, this program is for you. Juice is the premier podcast receiver, allowing users to capture and listen to podcasts anytime, anywhere.
Download Juice now, it's free!
