K1 sent this link to a description for a product that turns your Playstation into a universal language translator: http://www.talkaboutgaming.com/group/rec.games.video.nintendo/messages/576182.html The Japanese site includes some pictures and...

Lately I've been meeting and talking with people from the MIcrosoft Local Language Program, an effort to make our software available in more languages, particularly languages that are not generally served by the IT industry. They run a site called...

K1 just sent me this pointer to a text to audio tool that will spit out an MP3 file with your computer's voice reading the text from an RSS feed: FeedSpeaker - Text to Audio Conversion of your RSS feeds ( http://www.feedvert.com/FeedSpeaker/ )

An interesting interview published in Fast Company  quotes BillG:   "We've invested 10 years in the Tablet PC" -- Microsoft's platform for pen-computing, which has won only modest adoption. "We were in there even before the fad came along and after...

I saw a nice  summary of the various TTS offerings from numerous vendors worldwide, and it references another on-line speech course that I would like to check out sometime.