> I agree, but my wife does not mind, since she is visually impaired
> and gotten used to synthetic voice....she would like to listen to
> books, especially away from the computer and some of those she
> can not get...especially novels and such....
if so, some app using Microsoft Speech API may be alright with you?
Sorry, I'm not that much into this topic, so I cannot say, which
one works best for you:
http://www.authorsoft.com/language-reader.html
Supported document formats: Adobe Acrobat (PDF), Microsoft Word
(doc, rtf), Microsoft Excel (xls), Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt),
HTML (htm, html, shtml), Text (txt).
This may require to record what is read to create audio files.
if "audiobook" usage (without computer) is required. Try for
example http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ for that.
http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/
DSpeech - Allows you to save the output as a .WAV or .MP3 file.
http://www.bercutfinland.com/WikiTalkTL/WikiTalkMain.html
Usually another intention, but features text to wav/mp3
http://www.cfs-technologies.com/home/?id=1.4
Free registration should enable .wav export