by Zerosoft 2000 Advanced Text to Speech is a Text To Speech utility that reads aloud any text by simply selecting the text and pressing Ctrl+C. ATTS can convert text into an audio file (MP3 or WAV) for you to listen to later. ATTS also has a handy Alarm feature.
by Scalabium Software SMWordDocument components for direct and fast text extraction from any MS Word document. MSWordDocument component allow to read any Word document directly without OLE automation of MS Word application (MS Word installed is not required).