1) Speakonia
Speakonia reads aloud any given text with just one mouse click! The reading can be paused, resumed and can be exported to a wave file. In addition Speakonia is able to fetch webpages through an internal http interface and read them aloud for you.
2) Google's Online Translator
Type a search phrase in your language. Google will find results in other languages and translate them for you to read. Google will also read whatever you type in the search box.