Giveaways

The site Giveaway Of The Day offers free licensed software with full functionality for download for a time-limited period, generally 24 hours. You can subscribe to their RSS Feed to track goodies that may be of your interest.

Their current giveaway is TextAloud, a text to speech tool that also let's you save specified text as MP3 or WMA files.

Talking of MP3, Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks) also offers Audio Books that are both human-read and computer-generated.

To find out-of-copyright books that you can download, you can select the "Full view only" option from the dropdown while searching on books.google.com. Some magazines are also available with the "Full view" option.

Also see: Voice of Opera