From mikail gubarev Sent Tue, Jan 12th 1999, 16:40
There was a little program that shipped on the Soundblaster CD with boxed version of AWE32 a couple of years ago. It's called TextAssist and could read any highlighted text. It came with 8 reader presets ("John, Betsy, etc") and some tweakable parameters. Another one, called VoiceAssist, was supposed to provide voice command interface.