I am actually starting to do an in-depth review of the major text to speech softwares (I'll be posting on my youtube channel, though I haven't started reviewing yet). Here are a few that you might be interested in looking into (most are free or have free trials and all of them can play, pause, skip and go faster):

• Speechify: free, uses RSVP and is absolutely awesome, but is a bit glitchy because it's not finished.
• Ghost Reader: currently my favorite, but costs money (has a free trial). I like it slightly better than speechify for now, only because it doesn't crash. Once speechify is done, it will be better.
• Capti: Highlights sentences, etc.
• Balabolka (for windows - looks sketchy, works amazingly)
• Read&Write (I tried it, but honestly, it is more glitchy than I could handle)
• Kurzweil (good, but too expensive, also doesn't go over 400 WPM)

I am actually starting to do an in-depth review of the major text to speech softwares (I'll be posting on my youtube channel, though I haven't started reviewing yet). Here are a few that you might be interested in looking into (most are free or have free trials and all of them can play, pause, skip and go faster):

• Speechify: free, uses RSVP and is absolutely awesome, but is a bit glitchy because it's not finished.
• Capti: Highlights sentences, etc.
• Voice Dream reader (I hear it has great voices and a good interface)