The original encyclopedic 250,000 word Talking Dictionary. Talking Dictionary is a speech enabled 250,000-word English dictionary and thesaurus. Talking Dictionary has been designed for use by the non-sighted person. All of the controls are easily remembered keyboard shortcuts and it is a very fast and easy program to use. Talking Dictionary is designed to be used as a standalone program. What this means is that you do not need any kind of screen reading software or anything else to use this program.