I posted at Peakoil.com about PC Speech Software, which I find invaluable, especially for blogs such as TOD. Thought it might also be of use/interest to some here; with a program like ReadPlease you can weed your garden or build your bunker while listening to yack about URR, housing bubbles, and all the other fascinating chat that goes on here.

Wish it knew how to pronounce words like "wind" in their noun sense though. Voice is a bit more mechanical than your average movie robot or government bureaucrat, too. Can't have everything.

Congrats again to Robert for his mention in the Rolling Stone ethanol debunking. Pretty good rag for political coverage. A few years back I also came across an excerpt for a book called the Long Emergency that really grabbed me.

Apple's Mac OS X has good built-in text to speech support as well.
~Durandal (http://www.wtdwtshtf.com/)