Three blind friends (the are probably my friends because they are blind) ALL use MACS and its built-in features for audio web-browsing (a teacher, a keyboardist, a piano tuner)

IBM's Dragon Naturally Speaking (crap for S2T) is wonderful for text 2 speaking and it has the accents and any voice you want to mimic has been composed.

A Finance Friend for at six years (before PodCast) would pick up the front page of the WSJ online edition....process and burn a cd while he showered/shaved and listen to it on the 45 minute commute to work.

This is OLD Tech

Sincerely,
Gargoyle