Hindi Screen Reader and Hindi Text to Speech software

Whenever one sees the Hindi Wiki, one wonders why no Hindi screen reader is availble. Imagine how much more we could make available to people if only Hindi Screen readers were availble. Guess what? They are .. and we are even spoilt for choice!

Here it is, a list of all the Hindi Screen Readers that i could find, as on this date:

http://www.axistive.com/hindi-screen-reader-breakthrough-for-blind.html

http://www.n-syst.com/supernova10.php

http://www.karishmaenterprises.com/Jaws_Hindi.htm

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Tech-breakthrough-to-help-blind-read-Hindi/articleshow/590412.cms

And here is the link to Vachak: http://www.prologixsoft.com/vaachak.htm

Am yet to try it myself, but am sure its nice. Will post a review if possible.
More details about Vachak are here:

http://tdil.mit.gov.in/vaachaktexttospeechsystemapril03.pdf

And this is where one is spoilt for choice on Hindi Text to Speech software:

http://www.blissit.org/hinditts.htm

There is even one for Simputer!

http://www.simputer.org/simputer/downloads/software/dhvani/

There is a product called Talking Clipboard that apparently does support Hindi:

http://blog.talkingclipboard.com/

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/06/free-software-tools-and-fonts-cd.html

One download link here, but i haven’t verified it at all:

http://www.freshwap.net/forums/applications/115094-text-speech-hindi-india-accent-edition.html

And how can we leave out Speech to Text:

http://www.localisationlabs.com/Localisation%20News.aspx?storyid=060914133854020400

http://www.labnol.org/software/download/hindi-speech-recognition-software-with-spell-checker/1167/

PS: This last one is irresistible.. even though its not really linked to Esha directly: http://quillpad.in/

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