There’s a stripped down free version and a (better?) for-$ version. You have to cut and paste the text you want to hear into the Read-Please application window, so that’s a pain. But you can stop and resume easily; and by selecting only a part of the text in the Read-Please window, you can get only the selected text read aloud.
I have also tried:
"Browsealoud", which is supposed to read web pages to you; but it only works for "enabled" webpages, and few pages appear to work with it. Browsealoud is one of several text to speech products from a particular company:
http://www.texthelp.com/page.asp?pg_id=10002
"Fire Vox", which is an add-on (extension) for the Fire Fox browser (Mozilla); it is very clumsy and hard to control, as it just simply starts reading the darn webpage from top to bottom. Maybe useful for people with vision impairments, perhaps? But for someone with OK vision and fine motor skills (but some kind of need to listen to text, as opposed to read it), it seems like a mess. I ended up uninstalling it completely. http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/
You may also want to look at an article posted by CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology) titled "Access to Print", at
http://www.cast.org/system/galleries/download/pdResources/srsoftware.doc
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