Again I was bored and modified some old code. Here you go... It will read any text doc you tell it to read. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Plain Text File Reader
# Speaking version

use strict;
use Win32::OLE;

my $voice;
$voice = Win32::OLE->new("Speech.VoiceText") or die("TTS failed");
$voice->Register("", "$0"); 
$voice->{Enabled} = 1;
$voice->{Speed}=150;

my $myfile = shift;

main();

sub nl {
  print $/;
}

sub main{
    open (FILE, "$myfile");
    my @thefile = <FILE>;
    close (FILE);
    foreach my $line (@thefile) {
        talk("$line");
        nl();
    }
}


sub talk{
    my $line = shift;
    print $line,$/;
    $voice->Speak($line,  1);
    while ($voice->IsSpeaking()) {
      sleep 1;
    }
}

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perl -le '$cat = "cat"; if ($cat =~ /\143\x61\x74/) { print "Its a cat
+!\n"; } else { print "Thats a dog\n"; }'

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Re: Perl Reading Plain Text Documents
by jsprat (Curate) on Feb 28, 2003 at 02:59 UTC
    How about having it read everything you copy to the clipboard! Just start this, then minimize the window. Any text you copy will be read out loud. 

    #!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use Win32::Clipboard;
use Win32::OLE;

my $cb = Win32::Clipboard;
my $voice = Win32::OLE->new("Speech.VoiceText") or die("TTS failed");
$voice->Register("", "$0"); 
$voice->{Enabled} = 1;
$voice->{Speed}=180;
$cb->Empty();

sub say {
    my $text = shift;    
    $voice->speak($text, 1);
    sleep 1 while $voice->IsSpeaking;
}

say <<SPEAK;
Copy some text, and I will read it to you.
Hit Control C to stop.
SPEAK

while (1) {
    my $text = $cb->GetText();
    next unless length $text;
    say $text;
    $cb->WaitForChange;
}

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    I left this running when I copied the code to paste here - MS TTS doesn't read perl the way I do ;-)

    Oh, and once it starts speaking, it won't stop until it is done.

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Re: Perl Reading Plain Text Documents
by zentara (Cardinal) on Feb 28, 2003 at 11:57 UTC
    For you linux users out there, check out "flite", flite.

    It is a pure c version of the festival speech engine, and is very fast. To read a file: "flite somefile", and it will read faster than you can. It also has a beautifully done "audible time engine" which is highly optimized to give very a realistic voice to speak the time.

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      There is also a port of FLite for winCE available from the same guy that brought us PerlCE. See, it's Perl related :-)
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