Speaking software

Everybody knows that there is voice recognition software, but is there software available which actually reads out typed up pages, such as articles.

May sound like a daft question but surely there must be something along the lines available

thanks in advance

That's built into windows XP but I forget what it is....someone else is bound to know.

See this:-

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/accessibility/ttsplaybackvoice.mspx

and othesr from google " XP text to speech"

thanks chartman, I'll look into it.