This is Mary, an animated character that talks to you through your computer speakers or headset and listens to you speak into a headset or microphone. She talks back in a natural voice (similar to this web site voice) into your computer speakers or headset. Her facial animation shows when she is smiling, looking around or talking. Mary can wake-up your computer from hibernation and go to sleep when you leave the room. Control your computer by voice and listen to it speak back with our software. Use your voice to operate your computer hands free and to dictate words into a wordprocessor or text area. Dictate text into any field or word processor Display weather maps by voice names you create Run programs or ask for web sites by name Surf the net and follow links using your voice Programmable conversation and out-loud responses Voice lookup Google news stories Email a question to sales@talkingdesktop.com or place an order 1 850 819-6711 Basic awareness of the user. Our software is aware of you by its sense of sound (your microphone) and talks back (your speakers) using text-to-speech. This program enables your desktop or laptop to wake itself up (it hears your approach), activates your monitor and greets you with Hello John its 6:30 Voice Web Browser Multiple characters and male/female voices Natural text-to-speech responses Read live news sources out-loud Runs on CPUs from Pentium 4, AMD, Centrino to Duo and Quad core Intel or AMD. Say a weather map VOICE name to display it Ask for weather maps and web cameras by name. Here is a map of the US that we have named as Weather . When you say "Weather" a current weather map is retrieved from the internet. Product news Jan 29-08... An interm release of TalkingDesktop current Version 4 (for Windows XP) is available with several resolved issues and minor feature improvements. Nov 15-07... Beta Version testing for Vista continues and will enable TalkingDesktop to run on Windows XP or Vista. Customers who purchased TalkingDesktop Version 4 after Nov 1, 2007 will be able to obtain a free upgrade to Vista. Jun 21-07... Vista compatibility testing begins for TalkingDesktop software. Feb 10-07... Successfully tested incremental beta release 008 of Version 4 Jan 19-07...Note: TalkingDesktop V4 can now be installed on 2 computers.