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Text to Speech Software - Some Free

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NaturalReader is a Text to Speech software with natural sounding voices. This easy to use software can convert any written text such as MS Word, Webpage, PDF files, and Emails into spoken words. NaturalReader can also convert any written text into audio files such as MP3 or WAV for your CD player or iPod. Read more in 2007 article AT&T Natural Voices is an award winning text to speech technology developed by AT&T Laboratories and distributed by Wizzard Software. Natural Voices is believed by many to be the most natural sounding TTS available, the "highly scalable" multi-threaded technology can automate and add tremendous interactive and humanistic value to a wide variety of applications and projects. - Version 4.2 AT&T Natural Voices Server Text to Speech (TTS) for Windows or Linux - Implemented with a developers software developer kit (SDK) and distributable runtime software - Dynamically converts text into voice for a wide variety of applications - Applaude...

Insight into choice

Product developer and marketer can gain much needed insight into customer behavior by diving into the question as to how people make choices and how choices influence their happiness. Watch the following videos on the current thinking on choices.   Video #1 - Malcolm Gladwell makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness – Embracing the diversity of human being you will find a sure way to happiness. Move away from search for universals and search for variability. Video #2 - Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices -- and how we feel about the choices we make. Her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions. Video #3 - Paradox of Choice - freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied. Video #4 - Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our "psycho...

Path To Growth

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Making of Behavioral economics - Health Market Bubble

Link to play Dan Ariely talk at TED click here Read more at Dan Ariely's blog Are we going to forget what we just learned? 28th April 2009, 08:52 am Paul Krugman published an op-ed yesterday about exec salaries . The very sad conclusion he comes to is that because the financial markets seem to be on an improving trajectory (although it is hard to know if this reflects a real improvements in the economy yet) the push to reform the banks could die off. As Krugman puts it: “In 2008, overpaid bankers taking big risks with other people’s money brought the world economy to its knees. The last thing we need is to give them a chance to do it all over again.” We are now in a unique point in time where we just realized the mess we got ourselves into by assuming that the markets will be perfectly rational — and I sure hope we are not going to forget this painful lesson just because the market seem to be slightly higher these days. In...

New Search Engine - wolframalpha

First Review -  wolframalpha Very good Website for analysis of data. Check out the examples page to review some query results About the company -  Goals Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries Review about wolfarmalpha  NYtime.com - The Veil Is Lifted From Wolfram Alpha CNN.com -  New search engines aspire to supplement Google Telegraph.co.uk - Wolfram Alpha v Google: Which is better? Youtube Demo -   Harvardbusiness blog  -  Wolfram Alpha vs. Google = Power vs. Simplicity? Some have said his new project may rival Google because it goes ...

Banks - Stress Test - Fed Reserve

Stress Test = The Supervisory Capital Assessment Program (SCAP) Release Date: May 7, 2009  For release at 5:00 p.m. EDT The results of a comprehensive, forward-looking assessment of the financial conditions of the nation's 19 largest bank holding companies (BHCs) by the federal bank supervisory agencies were released on Thursday... Read more Overview of Results

3D Web Browser - SpaceTime

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SpaceTime has innovated its proprietary 3D technology to make surfing the Web a multidimensional and visually rich experience. The SpaceTime application allows anyone to navigate the Web in a 3D environment as they browse, search and shop using Google, Yahoo!, Flickr, eBay and more. SpaceTime , Inc. is based in New York, New York. SpaceTime revolutionizes the process of Web searching with three key functionalities: 3D Search, 3D eBay Search, and 3D Tabbed Browsing.