What are we now .. 24 years of the Internet ?
you d think by now there would be a great text to speech voice on tap,
ready to read e mails, read long articles, essays, give you a chance to
close your eyes and listen instead of reading from a screen.

THE VOICES have all been pretty crappy so far ... remember Sam... ? aweful robotic voices very hard to listen to.

But , at last... a brilliant text to speech voice... free on line
go here
http://www.yakitome.com/tts/text_to_speech#
you can paste in an article, an essay and let the voice read it back to you
pretty good voice too !