However, there are a few ways to make Talking E-mail work for you, even if you only have an AOL account. To learn how you can use Talking E-mail with your AOL account, please click here.

If you already have a Yahoo account please follow the steps below. If you don't have an account yet, please signup now before proceeding.

1. Login into your Yahoo mail account.

2. Click the 'Options' link on the left navigation bar.

3. Click the 'POP Access & Forwarding' option and follow the steps as instructed.

4. Open Talking E-mail and enter your account information as described below.

  - For Incoming mail server (POP Server) enter pop.mail.yahoo.com

  - For account name and password enter your YAHOO mail account name and password.

5. Send yourself an E-mail message to your Yahoo address and make sure Talking E-mail picks it up, after you press 'Check Mail'.

However, there are a few ways to make Talking E-mail work for you, even if you only have a web based account. To learn how you can use Talking E-mail with your e-mail account, please click here.

However, there are a few ways to make Talking E-mail work for you, even if you only have an MSN account. To learn how you can use Talking E-mail with your MSN account, please click here.

2. You can open an E-mail account at Yahoo that will allow you to use Talking E-mail. For instructions please click here.

3. You can use the 'Clipboard' button in Talking E-mail to listen to any text including your E-mail, Web pages or MS Word documents. Please see "Using the read Clipboard feature" for details.

4. You can disable the E-mail checking feature of Talking E-mail from the 'Quick Control' page and use the Talking Reminders, Talking Clock and Talking Clipboard features.

If Talking E-mail hasn't detected your incoming mail server address, look in the settings of your default E-mail program. The value you should look for is usually named  POP Server,  POP3 or Incoming Mail Server. 

Make sure you type the value with the correct case. Incoming mail server addresses are case sensitive. If you still can't find it, contact your Internet service provider. They should be able to provide you with this information. 

If you are still having problems, please contact etalk@4dev.com and make sure you mention which E-mail program you are using as well as the version. Please mention which values you tried to use for the incoming mail server address and account name.

Make sure that your password is typed with the correct case. If you still can't find your account name or you are unable to receive E-mail, contact your Internet service provider (ISP). They should be able to provide you with this information. 

If you are still having problems, please contact etalk@4dev.com and make sure you mention which E-mail program you are using as well as the version. Please mention which values you tried to use for the incoming mail server address and account name.

To make E-woman's voice (or other female characters) more feminine, try increasing the voice pitch in the 'quick control' panel. Click the 'Preview' button (located in the 'Quick Control' tab) to listen to a voice sample.

You can also download the Microsoft Text-To-Speech engine, which contains a woman's voice.

The problem you are seeing may be caused either by a "bad" installation of the text-to-speech engine or by your speaker volume settings.

The first thing to do is to reinstall the latest version of Talking e-mail. If you don't have the installation file, please download it now.

Please follow these steps:

  1. Make sure Talking e-mail is NOT running.

  2. Uninstall Talking E-mail from the add/remove programs in control panel.

  3. Install Talking E-mail.

  4. Run Talking E-mail from the desktop icon.

If the above steps don't solve the problem, please try the following:

  In the system tray (lower right corner of desktop) there is a speaker icon.

  1. Double click the speaker icon to display a volume control panel.

  2. Set all the volumes to the maximum and make sure that mute is not checked.

  3. Try running Talking E-mail and see if you can hear any difference.

To make the speech engines work with Talking E-mail in Windows XP, first install the SAPI 4.0 runtime binaries, then reinstall Talking E-mail.

1. Go to the 'Options' screen by clicking the 'Options' button in the main screen.

2. Click the 'What to say' tab.

3. Select 'Entire Message' from the 'Read the following number of lines' drop down list (at the bottom of the screen).

Talking E-mail will never delete the E-mail off the mail server, thus allowing your default E-mail program to receive the E-mail. If your E-mail program is running it might grab the new message off the mail server before Talking E-mail has a chance to read it. It will also delete the new e-mails from the mail server preventing anyone else from finding it later. 

There are several ways to solve this problem:

One way, is to increase the interval between checks that your default E-mail program performs. If you make this value 15 or 20 minutes than 99% of the messages should first go to Talking E-mail. You can also tell your E-mail program not to check for new messages at all, which means that 100% of the messages will be read by Talking E-mail.

To listen to text from other programs, please follow these steps:

1. In your word processor (or web browser) select a block of text with the mouse.

2. Select "Edit\Copy" from the main menu.

3. Go to Talking E-mail and click the 'Clipboard' button.

You can also drag & drop text from other applications to the main Talking E-mail window and have the text read.

After clicking the 'Browse' button, You'll be prompted to select your default mail program.

Below are the steps you need to take in order to add a 2nd (or more) user profile:

1. Create a folder called "Act2" under the "c:\program files\etalk" folder.

That's it. You can now run Talking E-mail with two completely separate configurations.