PUBLIC MARKS with tag speech

Being NOTES and SLIDES on a talk given at PLAYFUL 09, concerning CHARLES BABBAGE, HEATH ROBINSON, MENACE and MAGE by James BRIDLE

TED is an organisation that invites inspirational people to an annual conference to share their thoughts on the world, technology, design and more. It videos the results and archives them here. Will keep you hooked for days.

collection of sound bites and short quotes

supports high quality Video, Audio, Rich Text and SMS message formats.

autodetects languages and reads it for you

Time Management Randy Pausch Carnegie Mellon University http://www.randypausch.com

Dial2Do lets you do common tasks by just calling a number and speaking. Use it to send EMAIL or TEXT messages, record REMINDERS to help you remember things, post updates to your TWITTER or JAIKU stream and LISTEN to your favourite internet content. It's easy and handsfree.

Chirbit is a free online tool for audio sharing. Enables users to record, upload, listen to and share sound bites easily. Recording from a webcam or mic there is roughly a 2 minute time limit.(I am working on extending this.) If you upload an mp3 or wav there is a 120MB file size limit which translates to about 2hours of mp3 or about 10 minutes of wav

6$/month - Handfree access to online webapps. Provides mobile subscribers with access to email, SMS, calendar, contacts, Twitter, Facebook and more…without typing, by voice at any time on any mobile device Subscribers can listen to, compose, reply and forward their email all by voice – hands-free and eyes-free safely while driving, or any other time. Currently, 50 countries .available in a number of languages including English (US

Speech Toggle is a very simple freeware menu extra for Mac OS X which enables you to easily toggle Apple's speech recognition (Speakable Items) on and off. The software prevents you from having to make a trip to the System Preferences every time you feel the urge to temporarily use speech recognition.

add audio to photos and presentations

imo.im is a web-based service that allows users to hold text, voice, and video chats on multiple instant messaging protocols. Currently supported protocols include AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN, MySpace, Skype, and Yahoo Messenger. The service is free and requires no user-registration or sign-up.

Lecteur écran avec des voix FR de qualité. Licence commerciale.

Speechi is a tool that allows you to convert your PowerPoint presentations into Flash files (with no audio) and showcase them online. Moreover, thanks to the other three paid plans provided by Speechi, you can also record live lectures, add voice narration to your presentations and use the Speechi integrated whiteboard option within PowerPoint. Free sign up.

Author and Happy Cog founder Jeffrey Zeldman answers the question: what does a web designer need most?