A software tool conceived for blind people could offer an intuitive way for
  anyone to listen to online material
From: MIT Technology Review - 09/2015 - page 59
By: David Talbot

Yevgen Borodin's software, Capti Narrator, serves as a hub for spoken
material drawn from many written sources: Dropbox, Google Drive, Web pages,
e-book repositories such as Bookshare and Gutenberg, and more. To create the
software, Borodin and his team at Charmtech devised ways of extracting
content from documents and websites and running it through text-to-speech
engines. The software also lets users start listening on one device and
continue on another, picking up where they left off.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.technologyreview.com/lists/innovators-under-35/2015/humanitarian/yevgen-borodin

Links:
Yevgen Borodin
http://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~borodin

Capti Narrator
https://www.captivoice.com/capti-site
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/capti-narrator/id437052502