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

Aye Text to MP3
Aye Text to MP3 Lets you listen to text instead of reading on screen! It uses 'Text to Speech' technology to synthesize natural sounding speech from ordinary text. Also allows you to convert text into a MP3/WMV/WAV audio file so you can listen later.
http://www.ayesoftware.com/atm/atm.zip - 2Mb - 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! ... 9) Support almost all computer voices nowadays! ... 8) Tell the time and the date in different styles! ... 10) Many more funny and useful features!
http://www.qwerks.com/download/4310/cssetup.exe - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

Advanced Text to Speech
Free your Eyes: All new Advanced Text to Speech 3. 6 (ATTS) is a Text to Speech utility based on Microsoft Agent Technology. ATTS makes it simple to have your computer read text out loud - simply select the text you want read and copy it (Ctrl+C) to the Windows clipboard, and ATTS will take care... Why strain your eyes reading a screen or waste paper and toner when you can have text read back to you? ... You can also have ATTS save the spoken text to an audio file (WAVE or MP3) to listen to later on your PC or a portable audio device.
http://www.zero2000software.com/atts.zip - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot

SpeaktoText
With SpeakToText 2. 0, you can dictate and copy text to almost any application. You can even speak and send chat messages all without touching your mouse or keyboard. Our specialized WAVE to text feature allows you to convert a WAVE file into text. And as we keep improving SpeakToText? ... Speech recognition technology from Microsoft. ... Copy text to Microsoft Word entirely by speech. ... Detailed Manuals and How-to Videos to help you learn how to set up and train speech recognition and use SpeakToText?
http://download.speaktotext.com/main/SpeakToText2_0_Trial_Install.exe - 5Mb - Download - Screenshot

Language Reader
Language Reader takes advantage of existing speech technologies, provides a richer on-screen reading experience with multilingual voices enabled. Supported voices are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean. ... FEATURES: Read text (word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, document) using Microsoft Text-To-Speech technology. ... You can select text using your mouse, and hear the selected text being read by pressing a key on your keyboard. ... Cartoon characters, Merlin, Robby, Peedy, and Genie, who serve you as Assistant powered by Microsoft Agent...
http://www.authorsoft.com/LanguageReader.exe - 642Kb - Download - Screenshot

SkypeAttendant
SkypeAttendant is a virtual attendant to automatically answer your SkypeIn or Skype to Skype calls. Callers simply say the name of the person they are calling and SkypeAttendant automatically transfers the Skype call to that person. SkypeAttendant uses text to speech technology which means you... com for a live demo. ... Click the Skype 'I'm Online' button to listen to the SkypeAttendant demo. ... skypetransfer. ... Visit www.
http://www.skypetransfer.com/SkypeAttendant_setup.zip - 8Mb - Download - Screenshot

Key2Speak
One of the best writing tips you could ever receive is to have text read aloud to you. Hearing the written word is often more revealing than reading it on a computer screen. This program is a handy companion for whenever you're writing on the computer. ... It's a utility that uses speech synthesis technology to automatically read a selected piece of text. ... For example, you can have it read text after periods, commas or question marks are typed. ... Key2Speak can also automatically read copied text from the clipboard.
http://www.madoogali.com/Key2Speak/K2S_SetupUS.exe - 5Mb - Download - Screenshot

Cute Translator
Cute Translator is a powerful handy program to translate text, documents between 12 major languages. Supported languages are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese, with new languages being added... Automatically download required components such as Microsoft Text-To-Speech engines, cartoon characters direct from Cute Translator web site. ... Read aloud translations in American English, British English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Korean, Russian...
http://www.authorsoft.com/CuteTranslator.exe - 699Kb - Download - Screenshot

KATE
K. A. T. E. IM Avatar Character System Leveraging the Global IPC, this application (code name KATE) brings together the advanced Instant Messaging system from Sonork and the lifelike avatars from Haptek. KATE links this virtual reality technology with the Sonork client to enable living,... Using a SAPI text-to-speech engine, the character reads the text typed through the Sonork messenger, along with incoming messages spoken by the sender's character Supports customizing the Avatar? ... s appearance, shape, size, voice and background through an extensive set of preloaded options Includes...
http://www.haptek.com/dist/kate/kate1_all.exe - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot