Verbose Text to Speech Software
This professional text to speech application is designed to assist in listening to text. Verbose can be used to read aloud any text, then save it as mp3 or wav files for future listening. Typical Applications: ~ Sit and relax while your PC reads the text to you ~ Save text to MP3 or wav ~... ~ Listen to an eBook during your journey ~ Great for people with low vision or the elderly. ... ~ Prepare for a big speech by hearing your words read aloud. ... ~ Setup and use hotkeys for quicker and easier use.
http://www.audiochannel.net/software/verbose.zip - 180Kb - Download - Screenshot

Golos
Program will read by voice any of your text file. It advances the listening of your electronic books in form of text files. You don't know how it is? Oh, you have to know! Just imagine: now you can listen any text instead of reading it. Listen it with your ears istead reading it with your eyes! ... Golos program can hide to tray near clocks and to read right from tray. ... And the most powerful thing is that you can scroll through the text and use this text file like the single sound file. ... Oh, it's amazing!
http://hotsoft.hotbox.ru/programs/golos/golossetup.zip - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot

Text-to-Speech Master
Text-to-Speech Master is very powerful and interesting program that lets you listen to documents, e-mails or web pages instead of reading on screen or even convert them to audio files! It can read texts with different voices, speeds and pitches, read clipboard content, convert text to WAV or MP3... Just imagine, how it's easier to listen to texts rather than read them. ... Features overview: + Reads your DOC, RTF, HTML and text files aloud + Converts text to WAV or MP3 audio files so you can listen to it whenever you want!
http://www.ttsmaster.com/files/SetupTTSMaster.exe - 10Mb - Download - Screenshot

Listen Later
Let the computer read your documents so that you can listen to them later. Steps to having your computer read to a file 1. Import PDF or text files or just enter text 2. Select the computer voice, rate, and volume. 3. Preview as the computer reads to you 4. ... Record the speech to a file The Registered version gives the following * Save is enabled * No 20 day timeout * No Nag window * Excellent Support Available for Windows and Macintosh OS X.
http://www.lajdesignsw.com/files/ListenLater.zip - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

ACE-HIGH Text To Speech Reader
ACE-HIGH Text To Speech Reader lets you listen to text instead of reading on screen! It uses 'Text to Speech' technology to synthesize natural sounding speech from ordinary text. Just copy text to the clipboard or import from text files and listen as ATTSR reads it back to you! ... ACE-HIGH Text To Speech Reader also allows you to convert text to a MP3/WAV audio file so you can listen later. ... Create MP3 files from your email, news, articles and any text you want, download to your portable MP3 player and off you go!
http://www.textreader.net/textreader.exe - 2b - Download - Screenshot

CoolSpeech
CoolSpeech is the text-to-speech player for Windows! It empowers you to experience the wonderful text-to-speech technologies in many ways: 1) Listen to online news from any URL you specified! 2) Read your text/rich-text files and HTML files aloud! 3) Convert your text into spoken WAV files easily! ... 6) Listen to the text copied to the Clipboard immediately! ... 7) Schedule files, URLs and emails to be read aloud! ... 4) Listen to your new messages from your email accounts! ... 5) Listen to every word or sentence you've just typed!
http://www.qwerks.com/download/4310/cssetup.exe - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

Total Speech
Total Speech is a new powerful text-to-speech utility. It reads aloud your txt, html, doc, rtf documents and converts text to mp3. Total Speech can also create MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC, MPC, AAC, APE or MP4 files giving you the chance to listen to your files on iPods, PocketPCs and other protable... Image how productive you can be when all your emails, reports, documents and books can be read aloud for you! ... You just select the text to be read and make few clicks. ... Total Speech is indispensable if you study English as a second language or prepare for some exams.
http://www.CoolUtils.com/download/TotalSpeech.exe - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

Sherlock Holmes - A Library
Whodunit? A complete collection of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read, listen to, and print the Sherlock Holmes stories. This software will read aloud to you the Sherlock Holmes stories using Text-To-Speech Technology. Information is included about the author and the... You can also listen to the stories as they are read aloud to you by James - the Sherlock Holmes Story Reader. ... All of these stories can be read on screen within the software and up to three bookmarks can be set.
http://nellaware.fileburst.com/holmes.zip - 11Mb - Download - Screenshot

read_write
Training of foreign languages on examples. The program user - on his/her own selects any text in a foreign language (at least one sentence) - reads the text into a microphone - then listens to what he/she has read - types (prints on a keyboard) what he/she hears The program is high-effective... It is very good for children and adults that study foreign languages. ... The program is free.
http://www.paarschool.com/read_write/index.zip - 500Kb - Download - Screenshot

GroupsAloud
GroupsAloud, the worlds first talking Usenet News Reader, brings an unlimited amount of great information and conversation to you without the hassle of reading or even being tied to your computer. GroupsAloud is a simple to use USENET News Client. USENET is simply a system of newsgroups where... Now, with the introduction of GroupsAloud, you can listen instead of read. ... Listen to topics of interest while you do other work at the computer, or mark those discussions of interest for conversion to MP3 files for later listening on a portable device away from the computer.
http://dl.downloadhosting.com/download/nextup/GA1008.exe - 4Mb - Download - Screenshot