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BarCamp Sheffield

Date
28-30 Nov 2008 (Add to calendar) GMT
Venue
Showroom Café Bar , Sheffield, GB
Cost
Free

fter 18 months, BarCamp comes back to Sheffield. From 28-30 November 2008 the Showroom will play host to a gathering of grass-roots geeks, creative visionaries, innovative entrepreneurs and a host of talented technologists. The BarCamp experiment

We’re creating the optimum environment for you to share your passions about technology. Anyone can join us at BarCamp, and everyone who comes along gets involved. After that, well … we don’t really know what will happen, but we’re not worried.

It’s part of the fun of the BarCamp experiment to throw all the ideas, skills and personalities of the incredible mix of talent that gathers into the proverbial crucible and see what it all melts down to.

  • Connect and collaborate: forge friendships and start-up partnerships
  • Share your know-how: deliver a talk or join in a panel or seminar discussion
  • Flash your skillz: run a demo, workshop or other experiment
  • Hacker’s Delight: code something awesome in just 24 hours
  • Embrace your inner geek: give or take a masterclass
  • Tomorrow’s World: share your vision of what the future of technology holds
  • Catch your breath: rock out or chill out at Party 2.1

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  1. 28 Nov 2008 at 01:28
    Topten software Free download 2008 [b]Power Text to Speech Reader 2.00[/b] [URL=http://upanh.com/view-385_1.jpg][img]http://upanh.com/images/385_1.jpg[/img][/URL] Power Text to Speech Reader is an award-winning text-to-speech player that lets you listen to documents, e-mails or web pages instead of reading on screen,it uses voice synthesis to create spoken audio from text with natural voices. You can listen on your PC or save text to MP3 or wave files for listening later. Even better, if you have a portable audio device you can take your text as MP3 files to the gym, in your car, or anyplace you need to go.It can directly open Plain Text files (.txt), Microsoft Word files (.doc), PDF files (.pdf), EMail files (.eml), Rich Text files (.rtf), HTML files. For Microsoft Internet Explorer users,Power Text to Speech Reader supplies a handy toolbar plug-in for Internet Explorer and for Microsoft Outlook supplies a handy toolbar plug-in for Outlook.Power Text to Speech Reader supports dozens of male, female and robotic voices for over 11 languages. Power Text to Speech Reader can monitor the Windows Clipboard and automatically process its contents. This feature makes it easy to read web pages, e-mail messages, documents and much more. [b]Free Download here : [/b]http://www.vipsofts.com/14805/details-power-text-to-speech-reader.html [b]Agent PowerToy 2008 (it) 2.0[/b] [URL=http://upanh.com/view-495_791ec41afd55.jpg][img]http://upanh.com/images/495_791ec41afd55.jpg[/img][/URL] After the installation, right-clicking on the Internet Explorer browser window will show an additional menu option: Read {Language Name]!. This serves the same function as the Agent PowerToy for IE "Read it!" and "Speak It!". If you design web pages, you can include support for the Agent Powertoy, to present the page, instead of just reading it, to any user that has installed the Powertoy. Eleven languages available. Advantages of having such a character read a web page is that it has a more familiar effect on viewers. Also, as characters are coupled with an audio reading of the web page, many people can benefit from this method of information delivery. Including: the visually-impaired. illiterate persons. Children think it's fun! students learning a second language. your favorite nerd looking for a geeky toy. [b]Free Download here [/b]: http://www.vipsofts.com/36838/details-agent-powertoy-2008-it-.html [b]Embedded Speech Recognition Kit 1.0[/b] [URL=http://upanh.com/view-782_2.png][img]http://upanh.com/images/782_2.png[/img][/URL] Embedded Windows CE SAPI 5.0 Developers Kit is your complete Embedded Speech Recognition or Speech To Text Circuit Solution for Development of Speech Recognition System at Electronics level. The design is based on ISIP ASR and is Ported to Windows CE/Pocket PC/Smart Phone/ Symbian OS for Nokia Series 80 and above. With a memory overhead of 3 MB - for one sentence dictation, the engine very well fits the needs of developers looking for porting highly advanced research of ISIP ASR to the embedded world. See Windows CE Emulator Evaluation Installation for a live Experience. [b]Free Download here : [/b]http://www.vipsofts.com/7691/details-embedded-speech-recognition-kit.html [b]DeskBot 2.6[/b] [URL=http://upanh.com/view-532_4.gif][img]http://upanh.com/images/532_4.gif[/img][/URL] DeskBot is a free, multi-featured Clipboard Reader, Text Reader, Time Announcer, and Internet Explorer Add-In for Microsoft Windows which uses Microsoft Agent Animated, Talking Characters. From the developer of MASH - The Microsoft Agent Scripting Helper. [b]Free Download here[/b] : http://www.vipsofts.com/23906/details-deskbot.html [b]WeatherAloud 1.82[/b] [URL=http://upanh.com/view-343_5.gif][img]http://upanh.com/images/343_5.gif[/img][/URL] WeatherAloud is the talking software for your PC that brings you the weather as you've never heard it before. It's like having a personal weatherman at your service. These days the weather means a lot more than just what's outside your door, so WeatherAloud brings you forecasts and conditions from over 7500 locations worldwide. Wake up to your local forecast, listen to hourly temperatures from your favorite vacation spot, or hear conditions where your distant loved ones are. With frequent updates, current temperature in your system tray and complete control over when and what you hear, WeatherAloud helps you stay on top of the weather in your world. Available with exciting premium voices from AT&T, Cepstral and NeoSpeech to add amazing personality to your PC. [b]Free Download here:[/b] http://www.vipsofts.com/30784/details-weatheraloud.html 2nd Speech Center 3.30.7.1129 Converts any text into spoken words or MP3/WAVE audio files! 2nd Speech Center is an award-winning text-to-speech player that lets you listen to documents, e-mails or web pages instead of reading on screen. In addition to text, 2nd Speech Center also allows you to convert text to MP3 or WAVE files for listening later with your portable MP3 player. 2nd Speech Center can directly open Plain Text files (.txt), Microsoft Word files (.doc), PDF files (.pdf), EMail files (.eml), Rich Text files (.rtf), HTML files. For Microsoft Internet Explorer users, 2nd Speech Center supplies a handy toolbar plug-in for Internet Explorer. 2nd Speech Center supports dozens of male, female and robotic voices for over 11 languages. 2nd Speech Center can monitor the Windows Clipboard and automatically process its contents. This feature makes it easy to read web pages, e-mail messages, documents and much more. Additionally, 2nd Speech Center is integrated with many useful and timesaving features, such as talking alarm clock, talking reminder and powerful command lines for advanced users. And don't worry, the intuitive VCR style user interface is very easy to use. [b] Free Download here: [/b] http://www.vipsofts.com/21398/details-2nd-speech-center.html [b]Easy Transcriber 1.0[/b] [URL=http://upanh.com/view-731_6.jpg][img]http://upanh.com/images/731_6.jpg[/img][/URL] Easy Transcriber is a software tool for your transcription or dictation purposes. By using Easy Transcriber, you can transcribe the sound recordings of your interviews, surveys, medical reports etc. easier and faster than ever. Easy Transcriber shortens your transcription time more than 3 times. Easy Transcriber automatically segments your sound files from appropriate points, and plays these segments in various playbak speeds to make your transcription process faster and easier than ever. Technical Specifications Supports Windows 98/ME/2000/XP operating systems Audio playback and segmentation in 16-bit Microsoft PCM WAV format Supports different sampling rates (8000, 11025, 16000, 22050, 32000, 44100 ve 48000 Hz) Recommended System Configuration Windows 2000/XP operating System 256 MB RAM 1.2 GHz CPU or better [b]Free Download here:[/b] http://www.vipsofts.com/19712/details-easy-transcriber.html [b]Audiobook Recorder 1.6[/b] [URL=http://upanh.com/view-808_7.png][img]http://upanh.com/images/808_7.png[/img][/URL] Audiobook Recorder is easy to use text to audiobook converting software. Also it can read any text using different human voices. The only text-to-speech software with unique 'Smart Pause' feature that dramatically improves reading quality. Features: - Aloud text reading with different voices and languages. - Converting text to audio files (*.WAV, *.MP3) with high speed. - 'Smart Pause' unique feature can detect situation when pause is required, but no punctuation mark exists between words (e.g. in Contents). - Adjustable speech parameters: speed and volume. - Opens MS Word (.DOC), hypertext (.HTML), plain (.TXT) and rich (.RTF) text files. - Opens big-sized files. - Speakable text size almost unlimited. - Free trial download. - Free technical support. [b]Free Download here[/b] : http://www.vipsofts.com/34768/details-audiobook-recorder.html [b]RoboBlather 1[/b] [URL=http://upanh.com/view-336_8.jpg][img]http://upanh.com/images/336_8.jpg[/img][/URL] RoboBlather is a text-to-speech application written using .NET 3.0. Rendered speech can be saved to a .WAV file and both talking speed and speech synthesis voice are user-selectable. [b]Free Download here[/b] : http://www.vipsofts.com/39649/details-roboblather.html [b]Speaking Notepad 5.2[/b] [URL=http://upanh.com/view-877_9.jpg][img]http://upanh.com/images/877_9.jpg[/img][/URL] Hello! I'm Speaking Notepad! I am powerful and handy analog of Microsoft Notepad. But as you can see, I can speak! I'll read your TXT, DOC, PDF, HTML and RTF documents, readme's, notes, e-mails and clever and interesting thoughts aloud! With my help you'll cope quickly with routine work at home or in the office. Just imagine, how much easier it is to listen to texts instead of reading them. Give a rest to your eyes! I'm also able to read texts with SAPI4 and SAPI5-compliant high quality voices, different speed and pitches, read clipboard content, record texts into WAV, MP3 or WMA files and even read every word or sentence you are typing. That means you can control your typing aurally without looking fixedly at your monitor. With powerful bookmarking system I'm an ideal solution for reading e-books and creating audio books. I'm designed for those who value swift commodity in work combined with fascinating abilities and an interface which will delight your eyes. I'm sure, we'll become friends. [b]Free Download here :[/b] http://www.vipsofts.com/29767/details-speaking-notepad.html

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