Does anyone know a program that will read documents out loud for you?

[Gemmalah]

Hey, I wasn't sure who to ask about this so I was hoping you guys would be able to give me a hand.

Heres the problem, I am dyslexic and as a result a slow reader, I am scanning in books for my homework in TXT format (my teacher showed me how)

However the program at school (that reads work aloud) requires i be at school and I'd also like to do some work at home.

Before I have used Babel fish, i just copied and pasted the work in and it would read it (in a bad translator voice but oh well i got the gist)

Since then my computer has crashed, i lost the babelfish program and the demo CD i got it from lost so I'm a little stuck. My google searches have been a bit confusing as i'm not sure of the phrase to search for.

So anyway does anyone know a program from the net either as a demo or shareware or something not too costly that would do this. 

Also I have found a computer voice option in windows control panel and a friend has hinted that perhaps that can be used through word or otherwise without me having to download a completly new program, but i'm stuck again.

Thank you very much for reading, it probably seems like a stupid question, but it would really help me out (heck i could also use it for big chunks of the AGS manual yay)

Gemmalah

[Babar]

Look for Microsoft TalkIt. It can read .txt files

Although I'm pretty sure that Word can do it. I just don't remember how.

[SSH]

The Opera browser has built-in support for this, I believe: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/voice/

[Tuomas]

they do. though I never got them working, not that I wanted to though

[RickJ]

Google: open source text to speech

Pay particular attention to the ones on source forge.

[Gemmalah]

if anyone is interested i searched up talkit and found this link

http://ephestione.altervista.org/ephestione/main.htm?nfos/TalkitRecorderHowTo.htm

its quite interesting to anyone with the same query and can do loads of voices apparantly.