Text to speech devices is "a talking device (â€) that inputs text and
             converts it automatically to synthetic speech"[1]. These type of
             technologies have suffered constant and continuous improvements in the last
             couple of years and there are several companies specialized in this area.
             The Internet text-to-speech devices are similar to a traditional
             browser (it does everything the usual browser does), but the recent trends
             and development have increased the initial only browsing availability.
             IBM, for example, has improved its text-to-speech software so as to include
             and provide "greater access to e-commerce operations and improved Internet
             Recent trends show new developments in the e-commerce and e-business
             areas with the appearance of special browser designed for these kinds of
             activities, as well an ever increasing number of languages that are
             available (if in the beginning there were only few languages available,
             like French or Japanese, we can now have text-to-speech solutions in
             One of the software solutions used for text to speech is Read-e,
             produced by Artificial Relevance. It works on any PC with Windows 98, ME ,
             NT (with SP6), 2000, or XP operating systems and requires Internet Explorer
             6.0, as well as TTS voice. A professional sound card may prove useful. It
             reads text from the web on mouse over and has a multi-sensory user
             interface. Additional features include read text from word processors,
             databases and organizers, as well as a spell checker with the Global User
             Dictionary. When of the main advantages of this program is that it has a
             free license, in exchange for a link or feedback.
             Babel Technologies[3] has specialized in text to speech software and
             the company provides several such solutions, among them the Infovox
             products (Infovox Desktop and Infovox 310) and BrightSpeech. The Infovox
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