PowerSpeech for AOL is an America Online add-on which allows you to benefit from text-to-speech capabilities.

PowerSpeech lets you listen to chats in a chat room as well as in Instant Messages rather than just read the text.

You can also have the documents you have typed or received, such as e-mail messages, read back to you.

The program provides you with a variety of female and male voices, as well as other less human voices, which you can easily select.

In addition, you can assign a particular voice to the screen names of your choice.