Yeosoft Text to MP3 Speaker is a tool that can read in 10 languages so as you can rest your eyes when enjoying any stories or web pages. Besides real time listening, you may also convert text to MP3, Wave, Ogg or WMA file.
SayPad, the freeware talking text editor can read you a good book or help you write one, using SAPI 5.1 Text To Speech (included). It can convert Text to MP3 for a whole book in one run, splitting off chapters into well named MP3 files.