This text to speech program was written for Windows XP, but works on Windows 7 as well. Zip install from google docs.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzsC64x-wm5mc1M5OE9MekZTVGlxcjhnNVhITmFRdw
I wrote it back in 2008. Here's it's key features:
- Windows 7 compatible (x86 and x64).
- Reads text copied to the clipboard.
- Reads text files to you.
- Any voice that is compatible with Microsoft Speech API (SAPI5) can be used.
- The audio can be saved to a .wav or .mp3 file.
- You can set the length of the audio files based on number of words read.
- It will separate the audio files at the end of sentences.
- You control the rate of the speech.
- Its free to use.
You can buy more SAPI5 voices from the following company:
- Cepstral - Cepstral demo voices download here.