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  Voice Browser Our voice browser lets you ask for a web site by name. Example: Say CNN web site and its displayed (see picture to right). You can navigate each web page by saying the directional commands such as Up, Down, Page up, Page Down. Say bookmark to save a web address to your list of bookmarks. A web page can be read out-loud to you. Say web sites to see a list of your favorite web sites. 
MusicMusic List, Search For Music (searches your computer for MP3 music. Music, POD casts, anything MP3 ). A list of all your mp3 files is created and the active playlist is announced. To change the playlist say the name of the playlist you wish to be active (e.g. Classical or Rock). Once you have established your favorite’s lists you do not need to bring up your music list again to listen to a song. Say the name of the list you want to listen from (i.e. Classical) the list appears and the first entry in the list begins playing. Next or Previous will move up or down the list until you reach the selection you want. Replay or Rewind plays the same song again. Stop the music or Stop to turn-off the music. 
 ToDo reminders Say To Do and the reminder list appears with your messages. Say Messages and your recorded ToDo reminders are spoken aloud in your own voice. Next or Previous will move up or down the list until you reach the selection you want. Say play to hear the desired message. Dictation  You can dictate your spoken words into text with any application such as Word, Word Pad, Excel, Internet Explorer America Online, WordPerfect, Microsoft® Office Application, Email - Hotmail, Juno, Lotus Notes, Yahoo, MS Outlook or Express, Eudora, PowerPoint, GoldMine®, Microsoft Works, Instant Messenger, ICQ, AOL , MSN Messenger. Essentially you can dictate into any field that you can keyboard type into. Natural text-to-speech Talkingdesktop allows you to select and use any TTS voice on your computer. Further control of how the computer talks is available with commands such as "talk faster", "talk louder", "talk slower". Run Applications by Voice Name Launch applications and programs by voice names created to your preference. Information Retrieval Weather Maps 
Say "Weather" and your favorite weather map is displayed. Say "Northeast Radar" and a radar picture of the New England area is displayed.
Say "Caribbean weather" to see a satellite map of developing hurricanes in the Caribbean.
Web Cameras by name Display web cameras by name. Say "New York Markets"and a graph of the Dow Jones and NASDAQ markets is displayed. News Headlines News story headlines can be scrolled across your desktop from several sources by saying "News" You can ask to have the news read out-loud as it is updated or whenever you desire. You may ask for just "World News" or "Sports News" to be read out-loud. If a news headline interests you, just say a word or phrase from the headline and the associated article will be displayed in our voice web browser. Display Pictures or Graphics by name 
The program can display pictures by name such as "motorcycle" where motorcycle points to motorcycle.jpg in a folder on your hard drive.
You can enter any name that you want to say to have the program display that picture.
Speech Recognition Speech Recognition allows a full range dialog with your computer so that you can do dictation or issue voice commands. The program supports multiple speech profiles so everyone in the household can speak to the computer and the software dynamically adapts to a users' speech during operation. The software will tell the user when they are speaking too rapidly or too loudly. A vocabulary allows words to be added and customized. Emerging awareness Image how great it would be to have software that greeted you by name as you approached ! Well stop imagining because TalkingDesktop does this now ! Our program uses basic awareness to "sense" your approach and then greet you with "Hello John its 6:30". It can activate a hibernating computer monitor and independantly retrieve the latest weather map for your region. The software starts with Mary Beth as its name and your computer will respond when it hears you say "Mary Beth". 
Read a conversation with Jessica, one of our characters. |
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