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Well, MS Office has built-in voices for reading documents, but they're not very close to the diction of actual human voices. Are we close? not really. In other languages it's much easier, because intonation is word-based, rather than context-based as in English. Our system voices can pronounce the words correctly, but doing so for each word without intonation based on the actual sentence and story sounds... well, like a computer.
In the meantime, what's wrong with audiobooks? I have over 200 books on tape and over 300 in MP3 format. Most libraries have dozens, if not hundreds.
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