CK's Text-to-Speech to MP3 for Mac

From Charles Kelly:

You can use Apple's speech synthesizer to easily create audio files that you can put on your iPod.

• Make podcasts of blogs or other web pages.
• Make your own "audio books" from downloadable free e-texts of books.
• Create sound files saying every track in a playlist, so you can get a DJ on your iPod.

This package includes several applications.

• Safari Selection to MP3 File
  Just select some text in Safari, then run this program to make an MP3 file.
• Clipboard to MP3 File
  Select text in any application, copy it, then run this program to convert it to an MP3 file.
• Drag-n-Drop-Text to AIFF
  Drag text files and convert them to AIFF files spoken by MacinTalk.
• TextEdit to MP3
  Converts whatever is in TextEdit to an MP3 file spoken by MacinTalk.
• TextEdit to AIFF
  Converts whatever is in TextEdit to an AIFF file spoken by MacinTalk.
• DJ Track Names to AIFF
  Gives your iPod or iTunes a DJ announcing tunes and artists.

Features: It is pretty much a "hands off" operation

• It'll use your preferred voice, chosen in System preferences.
• It'll use your preferred MP3 encoding rate, chosen in iTunes.

Much more informationn is in the "read me" files on the .dmg that you download.