If you want to give a new dimension to texts, then use a program like Panopreter. It is a voice synthesizer that has been created to read text documents and webpages in HTM format, independent of the language.
Panopreter recognizes English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese etc, and its way of working is the following: it converts text files to audio files (in WAV or MP3 formats). This way you can listen to your files in any player, without needing to be in front of your PC staring at the monitor.