[antt]

A voice to speech system such that you don't actually have to sit down and read a book if you aren't sure you like it.

I suggest espeak-ng since it is the only t2s program that can manage 1,000 wpm without artifacts, can output wav files - which you can re-encode for mobile use.

[dumb2223]

It sounds nice, but reading reviews allow me to jump and select interesting stuff. Perhaps a speech system enhanced with a way to select what kind of content to jump to, something more that a jumpable toc.

[antt]

Select the passage of interest:

$ xsel | espeak-ng --stdin

Don't over engineer things.