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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