After eight years, it was time to move on to new opportunities. We definitely enjoyed working on them and working with you. You can make it STOP talking by holding down the 'esc' key. The most recent release of the Talker plug-in, version 2.0, lets web pages talk in many voices.
Some voices sound like robots.
One can whisper. Some voices can sing songs. And there is even one voice that can laugh hysterically. In addition to being fun, and useful to web surfers with visual impairments, speech generated using speech-synthesis technology requires much less network bandwidth than recorded audio. You are the 1,097,576 person to visit this page since January 1, 1996.