Better Text to Wave/Mp3 converts your text into different audio formats (such as mp3) so you can listen instead of read. Have the PC read your emails to you while you work on your project report, get the feel of the latest proposal you have written by having it spoken out loud (lest you happen to sound boring in front of the board and embarrass yourself). Hate reading e-books? Uses High Quality Text To Speech Engines from TTS Builder.

Customize your taskbar clock with time announcements, calendar with an image, colored alarms and startup reminders, printable to-do list. Your Voice Reminder will announce time/date for you with the prerecorded voices or the voice that you record yourself. It will remind you about birthdays, appointments, rest breaks or other events with text/voice reminders or alarms. You may export reminders and alarms, take with you, import and merge.

NewsPiper is an RSS/Web news reader and news ticker in one. It scans your favorites news sites
(cnn.com, foxnews.com, etc.) or RSS newsfeeds, retrieves news and displays it in the usual three
panes newsreader interface (channels, news titles, news details) and in a news ticker bar placed
at the top of your desktop. NewsPiper can also speak the news headlines and details so it can be
used as "radio" tuner for RSS news feeds.

TxReader converts documents into spoken words and MP3. TxReader is much more than just a program that reads any document presented to it. It is actually three programs in one, first is the quality easy to use text to speech program that give great reading result making use of the lasted natural sounding voice from all the top sellers.

Sayz Me is a text-to-speech application for Windows. Text can be typed in or read from clipboard. Words are highlighted when spoken. Select voice, adjust reading speed, voice pitch, font and color. Hides in system tray. Simple and easy to use. Freeware.

Customize your taskbar clock with time announcements, calendar with an image, colored alarms and startup reminders, printable to-do list. Your Voice Reminder will announce time/date for you with the prerecorded voices or the voice that you record yourself. It will remind you about birthdays, appointments, rest breaks or other events with text/voice reminders or alarms. You may export reminders and alarms, take with you, import and merge.

NewsPiper is an RSS feed reader, news aggregator, web grabber and news ticker in one. It allows you to monitor your favorite news sites (cnn.com, foxnews.com, etc.), RSS feeds or blogs, retrieve necessary news and display it in the usual three panes newsreader interface (channels, news titles, news details) or scroll it in a special bar (NewsBar) placed at the top of your screen.

"Excellent, unique software designed especially for conquering the TOEFL iBT Writing. 5 powerful modules: Practice of Writing, Practice of Synonym Replacement, Practice of Typing, Practice of Refining Sentence, Test Mode. Reference Storage includes complete collection of essential references for writing(e.g. templates, 185 ETS Sample Topics and Sample Essays of Score 5.) More importantly, you can practice a large amount of tested questions."

"?Excellent,unique software designed especially for conquering the TOEFL iBT Speaking section?Intensive speaking practice through a large amount of sample questions?427+156 sample questions, which covering all fields of iBT Speaking section?8*7*7*7*7*7 sets of different speaking test questions?Powerful practice mode, simulated test environment"

"?Excellent,unique software designed especially for conquering the TOEFL iBT Listening?Intensive listening practice by the most effective method of dictation?Includes all authoritative listening materials available currently?Display script of passage synchronously?376 passages, enough to familiar all fields of TOEFL iBT Listening?Practising all passages can guarantee score 25 for listening?Simulated test mode"

It includes Speaking Reminder.Characters read reminder for you.you can set any MP3 or Wav file as reminder sound(dancing animation will come on alarm).You can use your voice as Alarm.Includes calendar(upto 2099),Stopwatch, four Analog clocks,Digital clock,Daily Alarm,Simple And Advanced Alarm,Genie,Merlin(character) and etc.If you shutdown your computer and your Alarm/reminder elapses then you will be notified by this software.

Do you need to keep track of time around the world, if so Chronos Clock will solve your problem. Chronos Clock, the desktop clock that's able to display multiple clocks and different time zones.
Chronos Clock is simple to install and easy to use. If you need to know the time in other countries you can quickly set up a clock showing the current time, chronos can also display countdown/event timers. Also Chronos speaks the time with the MS Agent

"Excellent,unique software designed especially for conquering the TOEFL iBT Listening & Speaking & Writing Sections. This suite contains 3 products: TOEFL iBT Listening Conqueror and TOEFL iBT Speaking Conqueror and TOEFL iBT Writing Conqueror. Details are available on www.our-soft.com. Purchase this suite, get the same functions, but much cheaper! "